No. 65. Amarāvatč buddhist coping-stone inscription. Prakrit. (No. 477 of 1913).
| On a fragment of coping-stone. |
| 1882 Burgess, Notes Amar. Stópa, p. 43, No. 74 B; 1887 Burgess, ASSI I, Pl. LVII, No. 24 (Plate only); Luders list No 1269; R. Chanda, EI, XV. No. 13.46 |
| Lu: - Fragment. Gift of a rail (våtikā) by several persons together with their relatives and friends. |
TEXT. (RCh.)
. . . . . . . . . [sa]ía-janāna sa-nāti-mita-badhavānaė dānaė vetikāya chha hathā
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'(This) rail, six cubits long, is the gift of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . with their
grandsons, friends and relatives.' (RCh.)
(This inscription is engraved in peculiar characters. The vertical line of the n's is a little bent, and the lower part of m in mita is compressed. - RCh.)