North Indian Inscriptions

Contents
Index
Introduction
Contents
Contents
Preface
Additions and Corrections
Introduction
Images
Texts and Translations
Part - A
Part - B
Other South-Indian Inscriptions
Volume 1	Volume 2
Volume 3	Vol. 4 - 8
Volume 9	Volume 10
Volume 11	Volume 12
Volume 13	Volume 14
Volume 15	Volume 16
Volume 17	Volume 18
Volume 19	Volume 20
Volume 22 Part 1	Volume 22 Part 2
Volume 23	Volume 24
Volume 26	Volume 27
Tiruvarur	Darasuram
Konerirajapuram	Tanjavur
Annual Reports 1935-1944	Annual Reports 1945- 1947
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2	Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1	Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2
Epigraphica Indica	Epigraphia Indica Volume 3
Epigraphia Indica Volume 4	Epigraphia Indica Volume 6
Epigraphia Indica Volume 7	Epigraphia Indica Volume 8
Epigraphia Indica Volume 27	Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
Epigraphia Indica Volume 30	Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
Epigraphia Indica Volume 32	Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2	Vākāṭakas Volume 5
Early Gupta Inscriptions
Archaeological Links
Archaeological-Survey of India
Pudukkottai

PART A

p. 140, No. 23, and Pl. LVI; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 72, No. 118, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 236, No. 118; Barua-Sinha BI. (1926), p. 21, No. 73.

TEXT:
Purikāyā Seṭaka-[mā]tu dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The gift of the mother of Seṭaka (Śreshṭhaka)^[1] from Purikā.

Seṭaka cannot be equated with Pāli Śetaka or Sk. Śvetaka, as considered possible by Barua-Sinha, but was correctly derived by Hultzsch from Sk. Śreshṭhaka. In case of the latter equation to which Barua-Sinha do not categorically object they propose that the name ‘may be taken to mean a dignitary, a man of substance, or a banker, it being = Bengali Śeṭ or Śeṭh’.

A 19 (837); PLATES IV

ON a rail-bar,^[2] now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (C.B. 33).^[3] Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 140, No. 22, and Pl. LVI; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol XL (1886), p. 72, No. 117, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 236, No. 117; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 21, No. 72.

TEXT:
Purikaya Idadevaya danaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Idadevā^[4] (Indradevā) from Purika.

A 20 (839); PLATE IV

ON a rail-bar, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 140, No. 24; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 72, No. 119, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 236, No. 119; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 21, No. 74.

TEXT:
Purikaya Samāya dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Sāmā (Śyāmā)^[5] from Purika.

(e) A 21-22 Inhabitants of Bibikanadikaṭa

A 21 (725); PLATE IV

ON a pillar of the South-Eastern quadrant, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (P 6).
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^[1] See classification II, 3 a (name derived from wealth, fame, and birth).
^[2] It seems that the headings ‘S. W. Quadrant’ Cunningham, StBh., p. 140, and Plate LV does not apply to the rest of the rail-bar inscriptions Nos. 837-884 in my List. (Regarding the numbers in this edition see the concordance on p. 182.)
^[3] or C. B. 41 ?
^[4] The name Idadevā─cf. classification I,3, b (names referring to vedic deities)─reoccurs (A 45) as an inhabitants of Nandinagara.
^[5] See classification II, 1, b (names derived from appearance of the body).

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