No. 1. Junnar Buddhist cave inscription. Prakrit. The first inscription here is damaged from a part of the wall on which it is having been broken away, carrying off the first portions of each of the two lines.
1881 Bh. Indraji-Burgess, ICTWI p. 41, No. 1, and Plate; 1883 Buôhler-Burgess, ASWI IV, p. 92, No. 8.1, and Plate XLVIII; Luders list No. 1150; |
Lu: -Fragment. Gift of a cistern (pîähè) and [a cave] by . . . . thabhutinaka ( . . thabhóti). |
TEXT.
.... thabhutinakasa
.... poähi chà deyadhama [ || ]
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The benefaction of a cistern and (probably of a cave) by (some person whose name ended in)
-thabhutinaka. (ASWI)
Notes
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The termination -bhutinaka corresponds with the Sanskrit -bhóti.- G.B.