North Indian Inscriptions

PART A

TEXT:
Na[ṁ]d[i]nagarikaya Idadevāya dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Idadevā (Indradevā)^[1], the Naṁdinagarikā (inhabitant of Nandinagara).

A 46 (799); PLATE XXIV

ON a pillar of the North-Eastern quadrant. Original lost. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 138 No. 87, and Pl. LV; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 59, and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 255 (refers only to the name of the place); Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 16, No. 41.

TEXT:

1 Nāsika Gorakhitiya thabho dānaṁ
2 Vasukasa bhāriyaya^[2]

TRANSLATION:

  The pillar (is) the gift of Gorakhitā (Gorakshitā)^[3] from Nāsika; (of Gorakhitā) the wife of Vasuka.^[4]

A 47 (876)^[5]; PLATE XXIV

EDITED by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 142, No. 61., and Pl. LVI; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 32, No. 110.

TEXT:
Paḍelakasa Pusakasa suchi dānaṁ^[6]

TRANSLATION:
The rail-bar (is) the gift of Pusaka (Pushyaka),^[7] the Paḍelaka (inhabitant of Paḍela).^[8]

A 48 (878)^[9]; PLATE XXIV

EDITED by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 142, No. 63, and Pl. LVI; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 32, No. 112.

TEXT:
[Pa]rakaṭ[i]kaya Sirimāyā dānaṁ^[10]

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^[1]See classification I, 3, b(names referring to vedic deities). In A 19 the name recurs as that of an inhabitant of Purikā.
^[2]This is the reading of Cunningham’s eye-copy. In his transcript Cunningham reads gorakhitaya which appears to be the correct reading, and bhāriyāya. Nāsika stands for Nāsikā.
^[3]See classification I, 4, b. 1 (names derived from spirits and animal deities).
^[4]See classification II, 3, a (names derived from wealth.)
^[5]Lüders’ treatment of this inscription is missing.
^[6]From the eye-copy of Cunningham.
^[7]See classification I, 2, A, a (names derived from constellations).
^[8]Barua-Sinha translate Paḍelaka as ‘the man of Pāṇḍya’ (?) which seems to be unfounded.
^[9]Lüders’ treatment of this inscription is missing.
^[10]From the eye-copy of Cunningham.