North Indian Inscriptions

PART A

No, 124, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 237, No. 124; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 22, No. 79.

TEXT:
Sagharakhitasa m[ā]tāpituna aṭhāyā dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Sagharakhita (Saṁgharakshita)^[1] for the sake of his parents.

A 109 (843); PLATE XIV

ON a rail-bar, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (C.B. 17). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 140, No. 28, and Pl. LVI; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 73, No. 123, and Pl., and IA., XXI (1892), p. 236, No. 123; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 22, No. 78.

TEXT:
Saghilasa dāna[ṁ] suchi [d]^[2]…

TRANSLATION:
The rail-bar (is) the gift of Saghila (Saṁghila)^[1].

A 110 (849); PLATE XIV

ON a rail-bar, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (C.B. 29). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 141, No. 34, Pl. LVI; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 73, No. 129, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 237, No. 129; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 23, No. 84.

TEXT:
Sirimasa dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Sirima (Srīmat)^[3].

A 111 (846a); PLATE XIV

ON a rail-bar, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (No. 148). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 140, No. 32, and Pl. LVI.

TEXT:
Sihasa suchi dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The rail-bar (is) the gift of Siha (Siṁha)^[4].

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^[1]See classification I, 1, a (Buddhist names).
^[2]This letter, the upper part of which is quite distinct, has not been noticed by the previous editors, Perhaps the writer wanted to inscribe dānaṁ here, as this word is normally put after the object of donation, but having found that it was written already, he stopped inscribing it.
^[3]See classification I, 4, a, 4 (names derived from minor deities).
^[4]See classification I, 2, A, c (names derived from signs of zodiac).