North Indian Inscriptions

PART A

A 93 (834); PLATE XIII

ON a rail-bar of the South-Western quadrant, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (C.B. 46). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 140, No. 19, and Pl. LV; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 72, No. 115, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 236, No. 115; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 20, No. 69.

TEXT:
Devarakhitasa [danaṁ]^[1]

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Devarakhita (Devarakshita).^[2]

A 94 (727); PLATE XIII

ON the opposite side of the same pillar as No. B 7, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (P 10). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 133, No. 16, and Pl. LIII; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 64, No. 35, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 230, No. 35; Barua-Sinha, BI., (1926), .p. 8, No. 14. This side of the pillar is figured in Barua’s Barh., Vol. III (1937), Pl. LXVIII (81).

TEXT :
Dhamagutasa dānaṁ thabho

TRANSLATION :
The pillar (is) the gift of Dhamaguta (Dharmagupta).^[3]

  According to Anderson, Cat., Vol. I, p. 32, this side of the pillar bears the statue of an Apsaras playing a seven-stringed harp.

A 95 (734); PLATE XIII

TOGETHER with Nos. B 4-6 on the middle face of the southern terminus pillar of the South Eastern quadrant, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (P 1). Edited by Cunningham StBh. (1879), p. 133, No. 23, and Pl. XXI and LIII; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886) p. 6, No. 41, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 230, No. 41; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926) p. 8, No. 17.

TEXT:
Dharmarakhitasa dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Dharmarakhita (Dharmarakshita).^[3]

A 96 (845) ; PLATE XIII

ON a rail-bar, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (C.B. 35). Edited by Cunningham,
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^[1]The last word which is a little blurred already in Hultzsch’s photograph seems to have disappeared now.
^[2]See classification I, 4, a, 1 (names referring to deities in general).
^[3]See classification I, 1, a (Buddhist names).