North Indian Inscriptions

PART A

A 90 (853); PLATE XII

ON a rail-bar, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 141, No. 38, and Pl. LVI; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 24, No. 88. There are two inscriptions, one (a) in the ordinary script of the time, and another (b) in thin and badly shaped characters.

TEXT:
a Gosālasa dānaṁ
b Tosākasa^[1] māta^[2]

TRANSLATION:
a The gift of Gosāla (Gośāla).^[3]
b Of the mother of [G]osāla (Gośala).

Probably the first inscription is the original one, and the second was added as an afterthought to record that the mother of Gośāla shared in the expenses of the rail-bar.

A 91 (863)^[4] ; PLATE XII

ON a rail-bar, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 141, No. 48, and Pl. LVI; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 74, No. 140, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 238, No. 140; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 27, No. 98.

TEXT:
Chulanasa dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Chulana.^[3]

A 92 (855)^[5]; PLATE XII

RAIL inscription. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 141, No. 40, and Pl. LVI; Hultzsch ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 74, No. 133, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 237, No. 133; Ramaprasad Chanda, MASI., No. I (1919), p. 19, and Pl. V; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 24, No. 90.

TEXT:
Jeṭhabhadrasa dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Jeṭhabhadra (Fyeshṭhabhadra).^[6]

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^[1]There can be little doubt that the engraved wanted to write Gosālasa, but the first akshara is a plain to. The hook on the left of the sā is indistinct.
^[2]The second akshara seems to be ta, not tu; cf. § 33 (i).
^[3]See classification II, 3, a (names derived from birth).
^[4]Lüders’ treatment of this inscription is missing.
^[5]See classification II, 1, a (names derived from the appearance of the body). Cf. the remarks on Chula in A 17.
^[6]See classification I, 2, A, a (names derived from constellations).