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II. Inscribed on a broken pedestal the inscription containing three lines of writing in Brähmi refers to Sumati (the 5th Tirthankara). It is important in so far as it refers to the making of an image of Sumati (whose early images are rarely known) early in the Kuşāņa period. Text with notes.
III. On the pedestal of a broken Tirthankara image the inscription in Brāhmi refers to year 17 (A D. 95) of Kaniska. Text with translation given.
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K D. BAJPAI.—Two new dated Kushana Inscriptions from Mathura. (Jain. Ant. vol. XVIII, No. II), Arrah, 1952. Pp. 39-40.
It appears that the pedestal on which the second inscription of the year 53 of Huviska (13 A.D.) was discovered is without the image. The presence of the lions which is a distinctive emblem of Mahāvīra tempts one to believe that it might as well be the pedestal of a Jaina image. The word 'Vihare' in the inscription is inadequate to make it a Buddhist inscription.
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C. SIVARAMAMURTI.-- Indian Epigraphy and South Indian Scripts. (Bulletin of the Madras Govt. Museum, No. 4) Madras, 1952.
P. 4. Settlement of disputes between a vaisnava Feer and a Jain trader mentioned in a Vijayanagar inscription.
P. 5. The sister of Rāja-rāja, the queen Kundava, was responsible for a Jain temple at Tirumalai, King Devarāya built a Jain temple--these are examples to show friendly interest the kings took in the various religions other than their own.
P. 11. Khāravela a great contemporary of the Sunga, Pusyamitra, and Sātakarni, the powerful Sātavahana sovereign ; his qualities and achievements etc. described.
P. 13. Khāravela made the gift of the golden kalpataru ; portrait of Mahendravarman and his queen at Sittannavasal.
P. 16. The earliest example of Saraswati yet found in India is a headless image from Mathura with an inscription of about the beginning of the Christian era. Fig. 2.
P. 25. The symbols, Svastika and Śrīvatsa in Hāthigumphā inscription of Khāravela" suggest svastiśri Fafecraft, a form which in actual writing marks the beginning of Chalukyan grants etc. This is in addition to the brief salutation to the Jinas.
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