North Indian Inscriptions

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Introduction
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Additions and Corrections
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Early Gupta Inscriptions
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PART A

TRANSLATION:
The gift of Samidatā (Svamidatta)^[1].

A 123 (758); PLATE XV

ON a pillar of the South-Western quadrant, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (NS. 6500)^[2]. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 135, No. 47, and Pl. LIV; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 11, No. 20^[3].

TEXT:
Sonāya dānaṁ thabha^[4]

TRANSLATION:
The pillars (are) the gift of Sonā (Śravaṇā)^[5].

The gift of more than one pillar by the same person is recorded also in the inscriptions A 25, A 27, A 29, A 124.

A 124 (803); PLATE XXV

FRAGMENTARY inscription on a pillar, now at Batanmāra. Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 138, No. 90, and Pl.; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 16, No. 43.

TEXT:
.. .. .. sakāya thabhā dānaṁ^[6]

TRANSLATION:
The pillars (are) the gift of …â¦.. saka.

The inscription appears to be fragmentary, but I see no reason whatever why it should be combined with No. A 43, as suggested by Barua-Sinha. Sakā, moreover, does not sound like a personal name , and the term bhichhunī Sakā, ‘the Buddhist nun’, occurs no-where, neither at Bhārhut nor in any other inscription.

A 125 (899)^[7]; PLATE XXV

EDITED by Cunningham StBh. (1879), p. 143, No. 16, and Pl. LVI; Barua-Sinha BI. (1926), p. 37, No. 133.

TEXT:
..yaya dānaṁ^[8]

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^[1]See classification I, 4, b, 4 (Śaivite names). Barua-Sinha think of Śamidattā besides Svāmidattā.
^[2]See ASIAR. 1925-26, p. 148, Note 1, and Pl. LVIII d (above female figure).
^[3]Barua-Sinha, BI. p. 100, no. 48 a, give an additional inscription Soyāya dāna thabho, which they translation as ‘the gift of Śreyā (Śrēya)─a pillar’. This inscription is probably the same as A 123 where they read thabho instead of thabhā. As no one else has noted this additional inscription it has not been treated by us separately.
^[4]The second akshara is distinctly bhā, not bho, as given in Cunningham’s eye-copy. The vertical stroke at the bottom of tha appears to be accidental.
^[5]See classification I, 2, A, b (names derived from, constellations).
^[6]From Cunningham’s eye-copy which shows thabhā, whereas the transcript has thabho.
^[7]Lüders’ treatment of this inscription is missing.
^[8]From the eye-copy of Cunningham.

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