168(46). Amarāvatč buddhist stone inscription. (No. 477 of 1913).

On a fragment of coping-stone.
Burgess, Arheological Survey of Southern India, Vol. I, Plate LVII. No. 24. Noticed by Luders, List, No. 1269; R. Chanda, EI, XV. No. 13.46

TEXT.

. . . . . . . . . [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.)