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

TRANSLATION:
The gift of the nun Bhuta (Bhuta).^[1]

A 78 (815); PLATE XXV

ON a rail-bar of the South-Eastern^[2] quadrant. Original lost. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 139, No. 1, and Pl. LV; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 17, No. 49.

TEXT:
Sapagutaye bhichhuniy[e] dānaṁ^[3]

TRANSLATION:
The gift of the nun Sapagutā (Sarpagupta).^[4]

A 79 (851); PLATE XI

FRAGMENTARY inscription on a rail-bar, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 141, No. 36, and Pl. LVI; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. Xl (1886), p. 73, No. 131, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 237, No. 131; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 23, No. 86.

TEXT:
.. .. .. kaya bhichhuniya dānaṁ

TRANSLATION :
The gift of the nun .. .. .. kā .

A 80 (772) ; PLATE XI

ON the same pillar as Nos. B 8 and B 9, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (P 16). The inscription which is fragmentary is engraved above No. B 9. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 136, No. 61, and Pl. XXII and LIV; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 68, No. 75, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 233, No. 75; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 12 f., No. 29.

TEXT:

1 â¦â¦â¦â¦..to^[5] bhikhuniyā thabho
2 dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The pillar (is) the gift of a nun from â¦â¦â¦â¦â¦

The syllable to is probably the ending of the ablative of a place-name. Barua-Sinha tried to restore the inscription by connecting it with the fragment No. A 126, but their reading Avasikaya bhikhuniya is absolutely imaginary, as the letter preceding bhikhuniya can on no account be read ya.
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^[1]See classification I, 4, b, 1 (names derived from spirits and minor deities).
^[2]‘S. W. Quadrant’ in the heading of List Nos. 815-826 on p. 139 of Cunningham’s work is a mistake. The correct ‘S. E. Quadrant’ is found on Plate LV.
^[3]from Cunningham’s eye-copy which agrees with his transcript.
^[4]See classification I, 4, b, 1 (names derived from spirits and minor deities).
^[5]Cunningham read ratā, but the last akshara is distinctly to and the preceding akshara cannot have been ra.

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