Àbhèra Vasuøåía inscription, year 30
D.C. Sircar E. I. Vol. XXXIV. pt. II, p. 210
K. Raghunath I.V. p. 163 (No 47)
This inscription is engraved on a stone pedestal in the site of long rows of
pillars of a mandapa on the band of the river Krishna, in the north-east corner
of the Nagarjunakonda, now kept in the Museum.
K. Raghunath reading
TEXT
1. Namo bhagavato devaparamadevasya puràíapuruøasya Nàràyaíasya (rà)rajan
Vàseøòhèputrasya Àbhèrasya Vasusenasya samvatsara 30 vàpa 6 sidhaì
2. divasa(se) 1 mahàgràmikeía(na) mahàtalavarana mahàdanäanàyakena kauùika
gotrena paribiäehàíàì ùivasebenara saêjayapuriía yoràjibhiõ
3. Ànantakena ùakena Rudradàmena Vanavàsakena ca Viøíu-Rudra-Sivalànaêda
Sàtakarííinà sthànàtopina càlito(ta) (e)øa bhagavàì Rumbara-bhavo Àøòaìjasavàmo
4. Sedagirèya sthàpito parvatasya ca pràkàro citàpito vàpica mahànaêdà sodhità
taäàgànica 2 seäagèrèyaì Muäeràyaca khàíitàni talavàíanica
5. ropitàni yoøa bràhmaìàrthe mitràrthe ca pràíàpi na parèkshati guíataùcha
sarvvàtithi(õ) kðtajãaõ satykavrata ùatrugaíàva mardè (I)rujur(vvata)
nyàsenprmem
6. (øòho)yo (dhà)mikà(õ) sàdhjanàbhinandi (1*) ulekhagaschàsya
sambaka-cardhamàna(ko) Bharadvàjasagotreía amàtyena Tiøyasarmeía
bhagavach-chaktyàõ kðtaì (1 *) svasti go-vràt(ebh)yaõi .
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L 1. Earlies Dr. Subrahmanyam took at to be 9 (ct. I. A. R, 1958-59,p. 8)
however, Dr. Sircar, converted it to 30 m the assunation that the muubra
sesembles. The letter "le" (E. IXXXIV-19 p.). But the plates indicate no such
letter. It is a compressed tirm of the numoral '20' the too horizontal line out
the risht vertical line make a sight auple and the letter is obosed from all
sides, so as rather to resemble the letter "ba" with the lost are notched. It
can also be lidered. supertieially to bulged torms of "tha" (it Dari, 283). The
form agrees with many Variants of the numeral 20 (is In, 27-28, no 3, 2, 3, 5
and 14; ala Buhler, indische palaeograplic, pt IX, col. 13; G. H. Ojha,
Bharatiya praehinalipimala, pt. L XII, col. 4, 9; Ep. lud XXI, 82, or XXXIII,
295, line II. We may be permitted to draw the readers attention to the
Chinnahanjam inscription of Gotamiputra Yajna Satakarmi, were the mummeds 20 or
7 at giver-cf. Jour, of Indian history, XLIII, 242, pt, line 3 (Jih) 1. K. sarma
reads this as 20 year in Indica, Vol. VII, 1 p. 5
L 3. Read: Astabhuaja Swami (Makh, 197 a Bowbay).
L 5. Dr. Sircar read it as "yo (yes) ca", but we take it to be yasa the
nominative singular of yetad. The visarga, when to by a conspant in the scutence,
is dropped, hev the phrase reads 'Yeøa bràhmaía'. Verse in upajati, metre
L 6. The intended reading may be go-bràhmanebhyoõ