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Art. X.–An unpublished Valabhī Copper-plate Inscription of King Dhruvasena I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

The two copper-plates from which the subjoined transcript has been made were entrusted by Dr. Burgess to Professor Bühler for publication, and he has kindly allowed me to edit them. They are now in the British Museum.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1895

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page 382 note 1 Doubtful, whether spelt with one or two t's.

page 382 note 2 Read Bhaţārkkaḥ.

page 382 note 3 tt doubtful.

page 382 note 4 The usual reading is pras'astatara; tara is wanting also, Ind. Ant. v. 205, plate i. 1. 7.

page 382 note 5 Read rājya.

page 382 note 6 Read tattvānāṃ.

page 383 note 1 The first letter looks like ra or Ka; the third may have been ņḍa, but only a small ņa is visible; the th of stha seems also uncertain.

page 383 note 2 va and jya uncertain.

page 383 note 3 I am unable to make out the reading of these fragmentary letters. The last ai is uncertain.

page 383 note 4 āṃ and the double s are rather doubtful, but the reading of the whole passage is obvious from a similar inscription of the same king, Ind, Ant. iv. 104 f., plate ii. 1. 5 ff.: Valabhyāṃ sva-bhāgineyî-param-opāsikā-Duḍḍā-kāritavihāra-pratiṣţhāpitānāṃ bhagavatām Stmyak-saṃbuddhānāṃ Buddhānāṃ, etc.

page 383 note 6 This reading is not quite certain.

page 384 note 1 Or, perhaps, I[=*]pi.

page 384 note 2 Read tāny=eva.

page 384 note 3 Though only a small portion of the letters saṃ and ba is visible, and something is wanting of the numeral signs of 10 and 7, the reading is quite certain.