North Indian Inscriptions

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Early Gupta Inscriptions
Archaeological Links
Archaeological-Survey of India
Pudukkottai

PART B

Pl.; IA. Vol. XXI (1892), p. 230, No. 42; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 72, No. 181; Barua, Barh., Vol. II (1934), p. 68, and Vol. III (1937), Pl. LXII (70); Lüders, Bhārh. (1941), p. 10f.

Virūḍhaka, TEXT:
Chakavako nagaraja

TRANSLATION:
Chakavāka (Chakravāka), the king of the Nagas.

The figure on the right of the middle figure (B 4) is determined by the inscription given above. A nāga of the name of Chakravāka is not known from other sources. In attitude and dress he does not differ from the ordinary type of the Yaksha figures, but he is distinguished from them by a five-headed cobra surmounting his turban. He is standing on rocks with caves from which some wild beasts are looking out, right above a lotus-lake inhabited by water-fowl, a crocodile and a tortoise. This lake is apparently the abode of the Naga.

B 7 (726); PLATES XVI, XXXI

ON an intermediate pillar, probably of the South-Eastern quadrant,^[1] now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (P 10). Edited by Cunningham, StBh. (1879), p. 20; 133, No. 15, and Pl. LIII; Hultzsch, ɀDMG. Vol. XL (1886), p. 64, No. 34, and Pl.; IA. Vol. XXI (1892), p. 230, No. 34; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 70, No. 178; Barua, Barh. Vol. II, p. 63, and Vol. III (1937), Pl. LVIII (64); Lüders, Bhārh. (1941), p. 11 f.

TEXT:
Supavaso yakho

TRANSLATION:
The Yaksha Supāvasa (Suprāvṛisha).

The image to which the label refers resembles in attitude and dress the Yaksha figures described under Nos. B 1, B 3, B 4, and B 5. The Yaksha is standing on the back of an elephant carrying a garland in his truck.

The Yaksha is not known from other sources. His name probably goes back to Suprāvṛisha, as suggested by Hultzsch. As the reading of the label is quite distinct, I cannot agree with Barua-Sinha who propose to correct it to Supavāso, merely because a lay-sister bearing the name of Suppavāsā is mentioned in A. I,26. I refrain from discussing their further fantastic explanation of the name.

B 8 (770); PLATES XVI, XXXI

ON an intermediate pillar of the South-Western quadrant, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (P 16). Edited by Cunningham, PASB. 1874, p. 111; StBh. (1879), p. 20; 22; 136,No. 59, and Pl. XXIII and LIV; Hultzsch, ɀDMG. Vol. XL (1886), p. 68, No. 73, and Pl.; IA. Vol. XXI (1892), p. 233, No. 73; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 73 f.,
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^[1]Cunningham’s remark on p. 20 that the pillar belonged to the West is probably a mistake. On the other face of the pillar a female figure, called a Lotus-nymph by Barua, is to be seen, standing on a lotus-cluster, cf. Barua, Barh., Vol. I, p. 19, and Vol. II, 75.

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