In the calculation of dates, I use the favourite starting point for the
era of the Indo-Skythian kings, which unfortunately, is not certainly
determined, and assume that it is identical with the _Saka_ era of
78-1/4 A.D. The rule of these princes could not have fallen later: in my
opinion it was somewhat earlier. [Footnote: What follows is from the
author's later and fuller paper in _Wiener Zeitschrift fuer die Kunde des
Morgenlandes_, Bd. I, S. 170 f., but abridged.--Ed.] I give here
transcripts and restorations of such inscriptions as mention Jaina schools
or titles.
1. The inscription which is the most important for my purpose and at the
same time one of the best preserved, is Sir A. Cunningham's No. 6, plate
xiii, which was found on the base of a Jaina image (_Arch. Sur. Rep_.
vol. III, p. 31). The copy compared with a rubbing gives the following
reading, (the letters within parentheses are damaged):
L. 1. _Siddha[.m] sa[.m] 20 grama 1 di 10 + 5 ko([t.]i)yato ga[n.]ato
(Va)[n.]iyato kulato V(ai)r(i)to ['s]akato ['S]irikato_
2. _(bha)ttito vachakasya Aryya-Sa[.n]ghasihasya nir(v)varttana[.m]
Dattilasya.... Vi_.-
3. _lasya ko([t.]hu)bi(ki)ya Jayavalasya Devadasasya Nagadinasya cha
Nagadinaye cha (ma)tu_.
4. _['s]ra(vi)kaye (D)i-_
5. _(na)ye dana[.m]. i_
6. _Varddhamana pra_-
7. _tima_|
The lacuna in line 2, after _Dattilasya_, probably contained the word
_duhituye_ or _dhutuye_ and part of a male name of which only
the letter _vi_ is visible.
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