North Indian Inscriptions

PART A

TRANSLATION:

The pillar (is) the gift of Utaragidhika (Uttaragṛdhyaka ?)^[1] from Karahakaṭa.

  ON a pillar of the South-Western quadrant, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (P 27). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 135, No. 52, and Pl. LIV ; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 67, No. 67, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 232, No. 67; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 11, No. 24.

TEXT :

1 Karahakaṭa
2 aya-Bhutakasa thabho dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:

  The pillar (is) the gift of the venerable Bhutaka (Bhūtaka)^[2] from Karahakaṭa.

A 9 (891)^[3] ; PLATE XXIV

  EDITED by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 143, No. 8, and Pl. LVI; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 36, No. 126.

TEXT:

……….rakaṭ[ā]yāya^[4]

TRANSLATION :

(The gift) of a female inhabitant of (Ka)ra(ha)kaṭa (?).

  Cunningham read the inscription as …. rakatayāyā, but the third letter in his eye-copy is clearly ṭ[ā] or ṭ[a]. Lüders in his List proposed to restore [Karaha]kaṭiyāyā, gen. of Karahakaṭiyā i.e. a female inhabitant of Karahakaṭa. This explanation has also been adopted by Barua-Sinha, but as there is no ha between ra and ka it remains doubtful

(b) A 10-12 Inhabitants of Chudaṭhila
A 10 (820); PLATE II

   ON a rail-bar of the South-Eastern quadrant, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (C.B. 16). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 139, No. 6, and Pl. LV; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 71, No. 104, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 235, No. 104; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 18, No. 54.

TEXT:
Chudaṭhīlikāyā Kujarāyā dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:

  The gift of Kujarā (Kuñjarā),^[5] the Chudaṭhīlikā (inhabitant of Chudaṭhīla).
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^[1]See classification I, 2, A, a (names derived from constellations).
^[2]See classification I, 4, a, 2 (names derived from spirits and animal deities).
^[3]Lüders’ treatment of this inscription is missing.
^[4]From Cunningham’s eye-copy.
^[5]See classification II, 4, b (names derived from animals).