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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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

Three sides of the pillar are decked with sculptures. Each face has three reliefs marked at the bottom by a railing and flanked, the uppermost by a palm-tree and only lower ones by octagonal pillars with bell-shaped capitals. As this inscription is the only donative inscription on the pillar, it probably refers to the gift of the whole pillar, although the object of the donation is not stated.

A 63 (833); PLATE XXV

ON a rail-bar of the Southern gate. Original lost. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 140, No. 18, and Pl. LV; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 20, No. 68.

TEXT:
Kanhilasa bhānakasa dānaṁ^[1]

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Kanhila (Kṛishṇala),^[2] the reciter.

b A 64-73 Monks called bhadanta or aya^[3]

ON a rail-bar, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (C. B. 18). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 141, No. 35, and Pl. LVI; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 73, No. 130, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 237, No. 130; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 23, No. 85.

TEXT:
bhadata-Devasenasa dānaṁ^[4]

TRANSLATION:
The gift of the reverend Devasena.^[5]

A 65 (766); PLATES IX, XXXI

ON a pillar of the South-Western quadrant, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (P 30). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 136, No. 55, and Pl. XXXII and LIV; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 68, No. 69, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 233, No. 69; Ramaprasad Chandra, MASI., No. I (1919), p. 20, No. 11, and Pl. V; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 12, No. 26.

TEXT:
bhadata-Mahilasa thabho dānaṁ

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^[1]From Cunningham’s eye-copy which agrees with his transcript.
^[2]See classification I, 4, a, 6 (Vaishnavite names).
^[3]Monks are also called bhadanta or aya when (a) their native place is mentioned and (b) specific church titles are given. For (a) see No. A 38 (bhadaṁta aya), A 41 (bhadaṁta), A 8 (aya) ; for (b) see A 39, A 58, A 59, A 61 (bhadaṁta), A 51, A 56, A 59, A 62 (aya).
^[4]Hultzsch and Barua-sinha donaṁ. The horizontal stroke to the left of dā which gives the akshara the appearance of do is much thinner than the d-stroke and probably accidental.
^[5]See classification I, 4, a, 1 (names referring to deities in general).

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