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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
ANANTA-GUMPHA INSCRIPTION
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[-]" ko(th)āje(yā) *[–] [.]
1. It may be safely assumed that a few letters recording the name of the donor or donors are missing.
2. Mon Mohan Chakrabartti reads Dajacāra. Banerji differing, remarks: "It is really something like a mason's mark. There are three symbols, of which a central one is the Brāhmi letter ja, while the other two may resemble, but are not, letters." It is not too much to say that Banerji's is a cheap explanation, which has the merit of avoiding any difficulty that confronts a man attempting to read an old Brāhmi inscription wherein the letters are effaced and obscured. As far as I can make out, the first letter is ka or ko. The second letter is a fissured tha. The third letter is distinctly je. And the fourth letter is an obscured ya.
3. If the proposed reading koçhājeya be correct, it is easy to understand that it was followed by the conjunction ca and a word like pasādo or pāsādo.
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