South Indian Inscriptions

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D. R. Bhat
P. B. Desai
Krishna Deva
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B R. Gopal & Shrinivas Ritti
V. B. Kolte
D. G. Koparkar
K. G. Krishnan
H. K. Narasimhaswami & K. G. Krishana
K. A. Nilakanta Sastri & T. N. Subramaniam
Sadhu Ram
S. Sankaranarayanan
P. Seshadri Sastri
M. Somasekhara Sarma
D. C. Sircar
D. C. Sircar & K. G. Krishnan
D. C. Sircar & P. Seshadri Sastri
K. D. Swaminathan
N. Venkataramanayya & M. Somasekhara Sarma
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Volume 22 Part 1	Volume 22 Part 2
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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
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 27	Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

18(a)^[1]ma dhaṁma-gunā pavatitaviyā [|*] (X) hevaṁ tuṁphe ānapayātha Devānaṁpiya^[2]- vachanena [|*] (XI) he- (b)^[3] vaṁ ānapa- 19 yātha^[4] hathiy-ārohāni kā[ra]nakāni^[5]yūgy-āchariyāni baṁbhanāni cha tu[ṁ]phe^[6] [|*] (XII) hevaṁ nivesayā- 20(a) tha aṁtevāsīni yārisā porānā pakiti [|*] (XIII) iyaṁ sususitavīye [|*] (XIV) apachāyanā ya vā āchari- (b)^[7] ya[sa] (c)^[8] sa (d) ^[9][he]m=eva [|*] 21 (XV)^[10] yathā vā puna āchariyasa^[11] nātikāni yathārahaṁ nātikāsu^[12]rpa(pra)vatitaviye [|*] (XVII) hesā pi 22^[13] [aṁ]tevāsīsu yathārahaṁ pavatitaviye yārisā porānā pakiti [|*] (XVII) yathārahaṁ yathā iyaṁ 23 sa^[14]tiro(re)ke siyā hevaṁ tu[ṁ]phe ānapayātha nivesa[yā]tha cha aṁtevāsīni [|*] (XVIII) hevaṁ De- 24^[15]vānaṁpiy[e] ānapayati [|*]

TRANSLATION

Minor Rock Edit 1

(I) Thus saith the Beloved of the Gods. (II) It is (now) more than [two years and a half] that I have been an upāsaka (i.e. a lay follower of the Buddha).

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^[1]The aksharas susu are engraved here before ma (which Chakravarti reads as me), although their proper place is at the beginning of the previous line.
^[2] Barua : Devānaṁpirasa.
^[3] The following four aksharas, which are incised below the concluding part of the line, have to be read from right to left. What has been read hevaṁ may be hem-eva also.
^[4] Chakravarti : ºyātha.
^[5] Sahni and Chakravarti : kārunakāni.
^[6] Chakravarti ends the sentence after cha. Chakravarti and others read tuphe here as well as in X above.
^[7] The following two aksharas are engraved at the beginning of the next line (line 21), ya being at a higher level than sa.
^[8] This letter stands at the end of line 20(a).
^[9] The following three aksharas, at the end of line 20(a)-(c), have to be read from right to left.
^[10] The aksharas yasa engraved here before yathā should have to be read at the beginning of the previous line.
^[11] Sahni : apachāyanāya vā āchariyasa [he]meva se yathā vā puna āchariyasa, etc.; Barua : apachāyanā ya va sava me āchariyasa yathāchārina āchariyasa [ | *]
^[12]Barua : nātikesu which is the word found in the Mysore versions of the edict.
^[13] The damaged akshara sa, incised before aṁ, should have to be read at the next line. This escaped the notice of Sahni, Barua and Chakravarti.
^[14] This akshara is engraved at the beginning of the previous line. Sahni and Chakravarti : tiroke ; Barua : aroke.
^[15] This line has to be read from right to left.

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