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कहाऊँ स्तम्भ एवं क्षेत्रीय पुरातत्व की खोज
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Appendix. 9. The Indians Historical Quarterly, Vol. 28, 1952, page 298-300. The Kahaum Stone Pillar Inscription of Skandagupta
Kahaum is a village situated in the Salempur tahsil of the Deoria district (formerly Gorakhpur district in the Uttar Pradesh). On the west of the Stone Pillar there is an elevation, obviously the remnant of a brick foundation, indicating that there was a temple here; to the east of the pillar there is a pond, quite regular in construction, which lies between the pillar and the village kahaum; to the south of the pillar, at a distance of about fifty yards, there are broken images of the Jain Tirthankaras placed under improvised brick structures.
The last four lines of the inscription run as follows: पुणयस्कन्धं स चक्रे जगदिदमखिलं संसरद्वीक्ष्य भीतो। श्रेयोत्थं भूतभूत्यै पथि नियमवतामहँतामादिकर्तृन्।।
पञ्चेन्द्रां (न्द्रान्) स्थापयित्वा धरणिाधरमयान्सन्निमखातस्तंतोऽयम्। .: Steretan: Paroff after 194: Epicent in
Fleet in his Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum. Vol. III (p.68) translated these lines thus:
"(L.9) - He being alarmed when he observed the whole of this world (to be ever) passing through a succession of changes acquired for himself a large mass of religious merit, (and by him) having set up, for the sake of final beatitude (and) for the welfare of (all) existing beings, five excellent (images), made of stone, (of) those who led the way in the path of the Arhatas who practice religious observances, - there was then planted in the ground this most beautiful pillar of stone, which resembles the tip of the summit of the best of mountains, (and) which confers fame upon him."
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