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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
expected ataata nathi savata. Rock Edict III of our version has vijite (lines 2, III) instead of vijitasi
after Girnār and Shāhbāzgarhī and nikhamaṁtu (line 2, III) after Kālsī in the place of nikhamāvū
at Dhauli and Jaugaḍa. The passage imāye dhaṁm-ānusathiye athā aṁnāye pi kaṁmane in the
Erraguḍi text (line 3, III) follows the order of the expressions as at Kālsī, while Dhauli and
Jaugaḍa have athā aṁnāye pi kaṁmne imāye dhaṁn-ānusathiye. But Kālsī has kaṁmāye for
kaṁmane. Instead of the compound māta-pitu-sususā (line 3, IV), the Dhauli, Jaugaḍa and Kālsī
texts have ºpitisu separately. For mita-saṁthuta-nātikānaṁ (line 4, V), Kālsï has ºnātikyānaṁ and
Dhauli and Jaugaḍa ºnātisu. Similarly our text has samana-baṁbhanānaṁ (line 4, V), while the
order of the two words in the compound is the reverse in all the other texts, and Dhauli and
Jaugaḍa have baṁbhana-samanēhi (Sanskrit brāhmaṇa-śramaṇebhyaḥ). The word pānānaṁ (line
4, VI) follows Kālsī, while Dhauli and Jaugaḍa have jīvesu. The order of the words in the
expression gananasi yutāni (line 5, VIII) is the reverse at Dhauli and Jaugaḍa.
TEXT[1]
MINOR ROCK EDICTS[2]
(BOULDER F)
Minor Rock Edict I
1 (I)[3] Devānaṁpiye hev=āha[4] [|*] (II) adh[i]kāni[5]
2[6] ya hakaṁ upāsak[e| [|*] (III) no tu kho ekaṁ saṁvachharaṁ pakā[ṁ]te[7]
3 husaṁ [|*] (IV) s-ātirek[e| ch[u][8]kho savachhare yaṁ mayā Saṁghe upayī-
4 (a)[9] te bāḍhaṁ cha me pakaṁte [|*] (V) iminā chu kālena a-
(b)[10] misā [ye] munisā
5[11] devehi te dāni misibhūtā [|*] (VI) pakamasa hi
6(a)[12] [i]ya[ṁ][13] [|*] (VII) [14]mahapten=eva sakiye [|*] (VIII) khu-
(b)[15] dakena pi paka-
[1] From impressions. Chakravarti’s reading have been quoted from his unpublished transcripts of the edicts.
But in some cases his reading, originally preferred by us but discarded at a later stage on re-examination of the
impressions, could not be indicated.
[2] While quoting variant readings, we have referred to Sahni’s and Barua’s transcripts of these two edicts
published respectively in ARASI, 1928-29, pp. 166-67, and in IIIQ, Vol. XIII, pp. 132-34. The text of these edicts
quoted in my Select Inscriptions follows Barua’s transcript.
[3] Before de there is a trisceles symbol as in the Rājula-Maṇḍagiri version of these edicts. Sahni and Chakravarti take it to be the akshara se standing for Sanskrit lat or saḥ.
[4] Sahni : hevaṁ ha ; Barua : hevam ha ā (=becaṁ āha).
[5] The words aḍhatiyāni saṁvachharāni appear to have been inadvertently omitted after this by the scribe or
engraver.
[6] This entire line has to be read from right to left.
[7] Barua : pakate.
[8] Sahni and Barua : cha.
[9] The following sixteen aksharas have to be read from right to left.
[10] The following six aksharas are engraved slightly above at the left end of line 4(a) and have to be read from
left to right. The akshara ye is not visible on the impressions. The last akshara of line 4(a) is contiguous to the
last akshara of line 4(b).
[11] This line actually commences from below the last akshara (i.e. sā) of line 4. The six aksharas, viz. dakena
pi paka, meant for the beginning of line 7 (actually the line immediately following the present line, if the beginning of the lines is considered), occupy the space before this akshara at the beginning of line 5.
[12] This is a half line to be read from right to left.
[13] Barua : na. The word phale has been omitted after this by the scribe or engraver through oversight.
[14] The words no h=īyaṁ have similarly been omitted before this.
[15] The following six aksharas are engraved at the beginning of line 5 before devehi and below misā in line 4(b).
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