48 B - IV

There are four fragments of an inscription, which cannot be connected with one another. The first of these reads . . . . [Virap]urusadatasa sa . . . . . the last akshara being apparently the beginning of the word savachhara. This shows that the inscription was engraved during the reign of the Ikшvаku king Vиrapuruшadatta. The second fragment reads bhaga[va] (Sanskrit bhagavat) which either formed part of a passage like namo bhagavatasa at the beginning of the record or referred to a deity whose installation may have been the object of the inscription. The third, and fourth fragments respectively read: samuda and makuda[sa]. The letters samuda remind us of the female name Samudasiri (Samudraщrи) known from another Nаgаrjunikoндa inscription edited above (1A, line 11), while makudasa may stand for Sanskrit Mukundasya, Mukunda being a well-known personal name.