# Kanheri Cave 7 Second Cistern Inscription

Kelsey Martini

Author of digital edition: Kelsey Martini

Contributors: Kelsey Martini, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanheri00018

Repository: Early Western Deccan (tfb-earlywesterndeccan-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanheri00018.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Script (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ cemulakasa heraṇikasa ⟨2⟩ rohiṇimitasa putasa ⟨3⟩ sūlasadatasa poḍhi
⟨4⟩ deyadhaṁma 卍

## Translation

A cistern: the meritorious gift of Sulasadatta, the son of Rohiṇimitta,
a minter of Cemulla.

## Commentary

A gift by another son of Rohiṇimitta is recorded in KI00020

Cemulla, well attested in our corpus, is identified by both B+B and G as
modern Chaul, in the Raigan district, approximately 90km south of
Kanheri.

## Bibliography

### Primary

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Survey of Western India. London: Trübner & Co. Page 78, item 13.

[G] Gokhale, Shobhana. 1991. Kanheri inscriptions. Pune: Deccan College
Post Graduate and Research Institute. Page 66, item 18.

### Secondary

Naik, A. V. 1948. “Inscriptions of the Deccan: an epigraphical survey
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Ghosh, Suchandra. 2023. “Interrogating ’Heraṇika’ in the Inscriptions of
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