77 - Ayaka-pillar Inscription N belonging to Stуpa No. 9.
J. Vogel - EI XXI, 11
The Stуpa No. 9, to which we have had occasion to refer above, must have been provided
with аyaka-pillars in the same manner as the Mahаchetiya. But only one inscribed pillar
was recovered on this site, and the inscription engraved on it is incomplete. The
preserved portion contains nothing but a string of names, so that a translation is
superfluous.
Transcript.
(L. 1) . . . rinaмkаnaм Mуlasirinaka[sa] Sidhatha-
(L. 2) [ka]sa Chadamukhasa Pudhinakasa bаlika(а)
(L. 3) Mahatuvaнika Sidhaтhaмнikа Jakhana . . . . . .
POSTSCRIPT.
For the sake of completeness it should be mentioned that two words, apparently consisting
of seven and two aksharas respectively, occur on an uncarved stone slab found near Stуpa
No 9. A third inscription, evidently a single word of four aksharas, is cut on the base of
a carved slab belonging to the same monument. The lettering of these short epigraphs is
partly indistinct and I have not succeeded in making out their meaning.