Kanheri Cave 3 Chamber Right Side Wall Outside Verandah

Version: (67da95b), last modified (b8a3c29).

Edition

⟨1⟩ ye dharmmā hetuprabhavā teṣāṃ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ dharmmā ⬦ dharmā G. — ⟨1⟩ teṣāṃ ⬦ teṣaṃ G • The anusvāra is present in the eye-copy and photographs.

Commentary

Gokhale restores (tathāgato L. 2 hyavadat teṣaṃ ca ye ṇirodha evaṃvādi mahjaśrama)ṇaḥ, however the stone shows no trace whatsoever of further writing.

Bibliography

Primary

[B+B] Burgess, James and Georg Bühler. 1883. Report on the Elura cave temples and the Brahmanical and Jaina caves in Western India: Completing the results of the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons' operations of the Archaeological survey, 1877–78, 1878–79, 1879–80. Vol. 5. Archaeological Survey of Western India. London: Trübner & Co. Page 77, item 8.

[G] Gokhale, Shobhana. 1991. Kanheri inscriptions. Pune: Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute. Page 56, item 10.

Secondary

Naik, A. V. 1948. “Inscriptions of the Deccan: an epigraphical survey (Circa 300 B.C.-1300 A.D.)” BDCRI 9 (1/2), pp. 1–160. [URL]. Pages 48, 52.

Hettiarachchy, Jayadevanandasara. 1973. “Buddhism in the Northern Deccan under the Śātavāhana Rulers (c. 30 B.C. - 225 A.D.)” Doctoral Thesis, University of London. London. Page 114.

Damsteegt, Theo. 1978. Epigraphical Hybrid Sanskrit: Its rise, spread, characteristics and relationship to Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina 23. Leiden: Brill. Page 315 n. 204.