45 B - I

This inscription is engraved on the pedestal of a broken image of the Buddha discovered at Site No. 9. It states that the image (paдima=Sanskrit pratimа) in question was installed by a lady who was the wife of Koдabudhi. The reading of the name of the lady is, however, doubtful.

TEXT

1 . . . . . . rikasa Koдabudhisa bhariyаya [Makа ?]lаya . . . . . . .
2 . . . ti[тhаv]itaм paдima [||*]
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From impressions. This is A.R.Ep., 1958-59, No. B 77.
L. 1. The intended word was something like nаgarika (i.e. belonging to the city of Vijayapurи) or pаvаrika (Sanskrit prаvаrika) which is found in some early inscriptions (above, Vol. XIX, pp. 66 (No. I), 97). A prаvаrika was probably the maker of prаvаras, i.e. cloaks used by monks.
L. 2. The lost akshara is no doubt pa so that the intended word is patiтhаvitaм.