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कहाऊँ स्तम्भ एवं क्षेत्रीय पुरातत्व की खोज
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conjunction with a following r, e.g. in chakkrê, line 9 (but not in sakró, line 3), and puttrô, line 6. - My lithograph has been prepared from a lithograph of the same kind, handed to me by Dr. Burgess, from which was prepared the opposite lithograph, with the letters in black on a white ground, published with Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji's paper. One or two letters, imperfect in that lithograph, have been cleared out on the authority of General Cunningham's ink-impressions, which, though not adapted for complete reproduction, sufficed for this purpose.
The inscription refers itself to the reign of the Early Gupta king Skandagupta. It is dated, in words, in the year one hundred and forty-one (A.D. 460-61); and in the month Jyêshtha (may-June); but without any specification of the day of the month or fortnight. As is shewn by the images in the niches of the column, as well as by the tenour of the record itself, this is distinctly a Jain inscription. And the object of it is, to record that a certain Madra set up five stone images of Adikaritris or Tïrthamkaras, - i.e. apparently the five images in the niches of the column, - and the column itself, at the village of Kakubha or Kakubhagrâma, i.e. Kahâum.
TEXT" 1. Siddham'[11*] Yasy* = ôpasthâna - bhûmir = nsipati -
sata - siraho - pata - vật - avadhúta 2. Guptânâs vansa-jasya pravissita - yaśasas-tasya sarv
Ôttam-arddhêh 3. râjyê Śakra-ôpamasya kshitipa-śata-patêḥ
Skandaguptasya śântê 4. varshê ttrinsad-das-aik-ôttaraka-śatatamê Jyêshțha-mâsi
prapannê I(II) 5. Khyâtê=smin=grâma-ratnê Kakubha iti janais=sâdhu
samsarga-pûtê 110 6. puttrô yas=Sômilasya prachura-guna-nidhêr =
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