North Indian Inscriptions

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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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Early Gupta Inscriptions
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Pudukkottai

PART A

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Yakhī ( Yakshi)^[1], the Koḍiya.

LÃ¼ders in hisList translates this inscription as ‘gift of a yakhī (yakshī) by Koḍā (Kroḍā)’, taking yakhī as the object of donation^[2] and Koḍā as the donor. That a yakhī is the object of the gift is not probable as the inscription is not attached to a pillar. On the other hand Yakhī occurs as the name^[3] of a nun not less than three times in the Brāhmī inscriptions, see List Nos. 254, 344, and 500. For the interpretation of Koḍā as a women belonging to the Koḍya or Koliya tribe cf. Lüders’ explanation of Koḍiyānī in A 14, A 15 and of Koḍāyo in No. B 72. A Koḍa Kalavāḍa also appears in the Vakālā stone inscription, List No. 971.

A 117 (872^[4]; PLATE XIV

RAIL inscription, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. First edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 142, No. 57, and Pl. LVI; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 75, No. 148, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 238, No. 148; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 31, No. 106.

TEXT:
Ghosāye dānaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Ghosā (Ghosha)^[5].

A 118 (823); PLATE XV

ON a rail-bar of the South-Eastern quadrant, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (C.B. 15). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 139, No. 9, and Pl. LV; Hultzsch, ɀDMG., Vol. XL (1886), p. 72, No. 107, and Pl., and IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 235, No. 107; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 19, No. 60.

TEXT:
(Dha)marakhitaya^[6] dāna suchi

TRANSLATION:
The rail-bar (is) the gift of Dhamarakhitā (Dharmarakshita)^[7].

A 119 (826); PLATES XV, XL

ON a rail-bar of the South-Eastern quadrant, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (C.B. 59). The inscription is incised in continuation of No. B 44. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879),
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^[1]See classification I, 4, b, 1 (names derived from spirits and animal deities).
^[2]The only case where the object of donation is not put in the nominative is bodhichakasa in No. A 106.
^[3]Barua-Sinha also take Yakhī as a personal name although they translate Koḍāya as ‘from Kuṇḍa (?)’.
^[4]Lüder’s treatment of this inscription is missing.
^[5]See classification II, 1, b (names derived from appearance of the body and from voice).
^[6]The dha which Cunningham gives in his transcript and his eye-copy is now broken off.
^[7]See classification I, 1, b (Buddhist names).

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