The Indian Analyst
 

North Indian Inscriptions

 

 

Contents

Introduction

Contents

List of Plates

Additions and Corrections

Images

Introduction

Epigraphia Indica

Index

Other South-Indian Inscriptions 

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Vol. 4 - 8

Volume 9

Volume 10

Volume 11

Volume 12

Volume 13

Volume 14

Volume 15

Volume 16

Volume 17

Volume 18

Volume 19

Volume 20

Volume 22
Part 1

Volume 22
Part 2

Volume 23

Volume 24

Volume 26

Volume 27

Tiruvarur

Darasuram

Konerirajapuram

Tanjavur

Annual Reports 1935-1944

Annual Reports 1945- 1947

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2

Epigraphica Indica

Epigraphia Indica Volume 3

Epigraphia
Indica Volume 4

Epigraphia Indica Volume 6

Epigraphia Indica Volume 7

Epigraphia Indica Volume 8

Epigraphia Indica Volume 27

Epigraphia Indica Volume 29

Epigraphia Indica Volume 30

Epigraphia Indica Volume 31

Epigraphia Indica Volume 32

Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2

Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2

Vākāṭakas Volume 5

Early Gupta Inscriptions

Archaeological Links

Archaeological-Survey of India

Pudukkottai

THE SIDDAPURA EDICTS OF ASOKA.


11 âchariyê apachâ[yi]taviye ñâtikesu cha k[u?]1 ya[thâ]rahaṁ2 pavatitaviye [|*]
12 Esâ porâṇâ pakitî d[igh]âvuse cha esa hevaṁ esa káṭiviye3
13 cha [||*] Paḍena li[kh]it[aṁ] lipikareṇa4 [||*]

No. II.

1 [S]uvaṁṇgirîte5 ayaputasa mahâmâtâ-
2 ṇaṁ [cha va]chanena I[s]ilasi mahâmâtâ
3 ârogiyaṁ vatavi[yâ]6 [||*]

First Edict.

...............................................................[De]vâ . aṁ piye hevaṁ
4 âha [|*] Adhikâni a[ḍh] . t . y . [. i] vasâni
5 ya ha . [u]pâsake no tu kho bâḍha [pakaṁ]te husaṁ [|*] Ek[aṁ] saṁva . .
6 [sâ . i] . ke7 tu kho saṁvachhare [yaṁ] . . . ghe up[y]îte bâḍhaṁ
7 [cha me pakaṁ]te [|*] Iminâ chu kale[na] . m[i]sâ samâ . mu-
8 . . Jambud . . . [m]isâ devehi [|*] Pakama[sa] hi iyaṁ phale [|*] No hi-
9 ya s[ak]e . . . n[eve] pâpo[t]ve [|*] Kâmaṁ tu kho khudakena
10 pi pa . . . . na vi . ul . svage sak . ârâdhetave [|*]
11 Se . . . ya [i] . ṁ sâvaṇe sâvite [|*] Yathâ khu-
12 da . . mahâtpâ cha imaṁ [pa]kameyu ti aṁtâ cha
13 . . . . . thitîke cha iyaṁ pakame hot[u]8 [|*]
14 . . . . va[ḍh]i[s]iti v[i]pu . aṁ p[i] cha vaḍhisiti a –
15 . . . . . . . yaṁ vaḍhisiti [|*] I . ṁ [cha] sâ[va]ṇe
16 . . . . . . . . . . [||*]

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.Second Edict.

....... . . . . . . . taviy[e]9 [|*]
17 . . . . . . . . . . [hyi]tavyaṁ [|*] Śa[cha]ṁ va . . yaṁ [|*] Im . dhaṁmagu-
18 . . . . . . [|*] H . m . . . . . . . . [âcha]riye apachâyi- taviye su10
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......1 This reading is not absolutely certain. The stroke which I interpret as a u, is attached to the lower left side of the consonant. The blot taken by others for an anusvâra is very irregular in its outline.
......2 The circle and the central dot of tha are faintly visible on the impression ; compare the much plainer thâ in line 20 of No. II.
......3 Read kaṭaviye.
......4 Written in Northern or Kharôshṭrî characters. The apparent semicircles below the signs are not connected with the letters, and are mere flourishes.
......5 The first syllable is damaged, but unmistakable. The impression leaves no doubt that the lines near the top of the consonant, which have induced others to read si, are accidental.
......6 Deceived by the double vataviyâ, the writer has omitted vataviyâ cha hevaṁ before this word.
......7 The signs sâ . i are faintly visible on the impression.
......8 The reverse of the impression shows the u-stroke of hotu, and proves that the apparent i-stroke in the same syllable is due to an accidental fissure.
......9 The lacuna in line 16 is too small to have contained the whole text of the version of No. I. Some indistinct signs are visible before taviye.
......10 This is probably the end of ñâtikesu.

 

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