No. 5. Junnar Buddhist cave inscription. Prakrit.

1881 Bhagvanlal Indraji-Burgess, Inscr. Cave-Temp. W. Ind. p. 43, No. 5, and Plate; 1883 Buôhler-Burgess, Arch. Surv. W. Ind. Vol. IV. p.; 93, No. 8.5, and Plate XLIX; 1896 note by Franke, Zeitschr. Deutsch. Morgenl. Ges. Vol. L. p. 595; Luders list No. 1154;
Lu: - Gift of two cisterns (pîähè) by the Yavana Irila of the Gatas (? Gartas).

TEXT.

Yavanasa Irilasa Gatàna deyadhama be poähiyo [||]
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The meritorious gift of two cisterns by the Yavana Irila of the Gatà (country).   (ASWI)

Note (ASWI)
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Gatàna, which is also found in No. 8, after the name of a Yavana, is a genitive plural. Its base, Gata, corresponds with the Sans. Garta, which is the same of a district (a part of Trigarta or Kàngra) in the Panjàb; hence, Gatàna may be translated - of the Garta country - or - of the Gartas. It is intelligible how a Yavana might have his home in the Panjàb, where Greeks and Persians resided from early times. Conf. Lassen, Pentap. Ind., p. 52; Wilson, Viøíu Pur., p. 193; Cunningham, Arch. Rep., vol. v, pp. 148 ff.; and Ind. Ant., vol. ix, p. 252. (ASWI)