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
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Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2	Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
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Early Gupta Inscriptions
Archaeological Links
Archaeological-Survey of India
Pudukkottai

PART A

4. A 56-73 DONATIONS BY MONKS^[1]
(a) A 56 - 63 Monks having specific church titles^[2^]

A 56 (856)^[3] ; PLATE VIII

EDITED by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 141, No. 40, and Pl. LVI ; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 74, No. 134, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 237, No. 134; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 24 ff., No. 91; Lüders, Bhārh. (1941), p. 174 f.

TEXT :
aya-Jatasa peṭakino suchi dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The rail-bar (is) the gift of the venerable (ārya) Jāta,^[4] who knows the Piṭakas.

A 57 (867)^[5]; PLATE VIII

RAIL inscription, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 142, No. 52, and Pl. LVI; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 75, No. 144, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 238, No. 144 ; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 28, No. 101; Lüders, Bhārh. (1941), p. 175 f.

TEXT:
Budharakhitasa pa[ṁ]cha-nekāyikasa dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:

The gift of Budharakhita (Buddharakshita),^[6] who known the five nikayas.

The attribute paṁchanekāyika is given to the monk Devagiri in the Sāñchī-inscription List No. 229. The name Budharakhita is common in inscriptions and reoccurs in A 55 and 58. In our inscription it is of course the name of a monk, not of a lay-man as suggested by Barua, FPASB., New Ser. XIX, p. 358, and Barh. Vol. I, p. 46, although he is not expressly called a bhikkhu.

A 58 (792); PLATES IX, XXIX

TOGETHER with Nos. B 1-3 on the inner face of the terminus corner pillar of the North-Western quadrant, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (P 5). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 138, No. 80, and Pl. XXII and LV; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886),
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^[1]For donations by monks mentioned as inhabitants of certain places see No. A 8, A 17, A 38, A 39, A 41, A 51, A 54.
^[2]On the general importance of some of the church titles (peṭakin, paṁchanekāyika, bhānaka) cf. below p. 71 and notes. For monks having church titles mentioned with reference to their native place see No. A 51 (sutaṁtika), A 39 and A 54 (bhānaka).
^[3]Lüders’ treatment of this inscription is missing.
^[4]See classification II, 3, a (names derived from birth).
^[5]Lüders’ treatment of this inscription is missing.
^[6]See classification I, 1, a (Buddhist names).

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