No. 83. Amarāvatč buddhist stone inscription. Prakrit.
| On a fragment (corner) of a sculptured slab. |
| 1886 Hultzsch, ZDMG XL, p. 345, No. 51; 1887 Burgess, ASSI I, Pl. LXI, No. 55 (Plate only); Luders list No 1287; = R. Chanda, EI, XV. No. 13.47 |
| Lu: - Fragment. Gift of slabs with a svastika (sothikapaōa) and of an abātamālā by Kaíhā (Kðiøía), wife of . . . . ka together with her father . . . and her relatives and friends. |
TEXT. (RCh.)
1 . . . . . ka sa-bhariyāya Chaka[data]ya sa-pitukāya
2 . . . . . . . . ha[ya] sa-nāti-mita-badhavehi deya-dhama
3 . . . . . . . . patiōhapita soōhika-paōo abāta-mālā cha
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'(This) slab with svastika and an abātamāla are the pious gifts established by
Cakradatta, wife of . . . ka, together with her father . . . . . . and their grandsons,
friends and relatives' (RCh.)
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The sign hetween ka and ya in line 1 is very indistinct. Luders takes it as nh. (RCh) [I
would take it as a da followed by a ta written below the line. For abātamāla cf.
inscriptions Nos. 51-2 in Professor Hultzsch's article on the Amaravati inscriptions in
the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlāndischen Gesellschaft, Vol. XL, pp. 345-6.-Ed.
F.W.Thomas]