No. 6. Andhau stone inscription. This inscription consists of four lines in a very imperfect state of preservation. The second halves of the first two lines have disappeared almost entirely, stray syllables being legible in places. A portion of the stone at the bottom of the inscription has also broken away, carrying away the lower part of the subscript ra of щrа and the lower half of ra in re of щrаmaнerena. The object of the inscription is to record the erection of a funeral monument to the memory of one Ршabhadеva by his father Treштadata, a Buddhist monk, in the year 52. It measures 3'5" x 1'2". (BB).

TEXT. (BB).

1 Rаjгo Chаштanasa Ysаmotika-pu[trasa] r[а]j[гo] Ru[dradаmasa] Jayadаma-
2 putra[sa] varшe 50 2 Phagu[na]-bahulasa dvitiyaм va 2
3 Ршabhadevasa Treштadata-putrasa Opaщati-gotrasa
4 pitr[а] Treштadatena щrаmaн[e]rena laштi uthаpita
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L. 1. The а mark in Chаштana is not horizontal as in inscriptions A and C, a similar a mark is used in Ysа. (BB).
L. 4. The а mark is horizontal in щrа; the presence of a base line in the 10th syllable in l. 4 proves conclusively that syllables 8-12 of this line represent щrаmaнerena and not Щrи-Madanena, as read by Prof. D. R. Bhandarkar. A similar a mark is to be found in thа (uthаpita). (BB).