North Indian Inscriptions

PART B

gahetva navāya vegasā gachchhamānāya pi na muñchi erakapattaṁ chhijitvā gataṁ). As he did not confess his crime he is reborn as a Nāga king Erakapatta. It is therefore evident that even in the name of the Nāga there exists no difference between the label and the Pali text. Erakapatta is nothing else but the younger form coming out of Erapatta.

B 38 (750); PLATES XIX, XXXIX

  ON the uppermost relief of the inner face of the same pillar as No. A 62, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (P 29). The inscription is engraved on the roof of a building. Edited by Cunningham, PASB. 1874, p. 115; StBh. (1879), p. 11; 90; 110; 134, No. 39, and Pl. XIII and LIV; Hoernle, IA. Vol. X (1881), p. 225, No. 10a, and Pl.; Hultzsch, ɀDMG. Vol. XL (1886), p. 66, No. 57, and Pl.; IA. Vol. XXI (1892), p. 232, No. 57; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 57 f., No. 159; p. 64, No. 169.

TEXT:
bhagavato dhamachakaṁ

TRANSLATION:
The Wheel of the Doctrine of the Holy One.

[B 38 and 39 refer to one and the same sculpture.]
See the remarks on No. B 39.

B 39 (751); PLATES XIX, XXXIX

ON the uppermost relief of the inner face of the same pillar as No. A 62, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (P 29). Edited by Cunningham, PASB. 1874, p. 115; StBh. (1879), p. 90; 111; 134, No. 40, and Pl. XIII and LIV; Hoernle, IA. Vol. X (1881), p. 255, No. 10b, and Pl.; Hultzsch, ɀDMG. Vol. XL (1886), p. 66, No. 58, and Pl., IA. Vol. XXI (1892), p. 232, No. 58; Barua-Sinha, BI. (1926), p. 64, No. 168; Barua, Barh. Vol. II (1934), p. 46 ff., and Vol. III (1937), Pl. L (52); Lüders, Bhārh. (1941), p. 62 ff. _

TEXT:
1 raja Pasenaji
2 Kosalo

TRANSLATION:
King Pasenaji (Prasenajit), the Kosala (Kausala).

    [B 38 and 39 refer to one and the same sculpture.]
     The relief bearing this and the preceding inscription shows a two-storeyed edifice resembling the building round the Bodhi tree described above No. B 23. In the centre of the lower storey there is a large wheel with a parasol over it and a garland hanging over its nave. It is flanked on each side by a well-dressed man in devotional attitude. Below, at the right-hand corner, there emerges from the gateway of a palace a chariot of which only the heads of the two horses and of the driver are visible. On the left appears a chariot drawn by four richly caparisoned horses. A king has taken his place in it together with his charioteer, who is holding the reins, and two attendants, one carrying a parasol and the other waving a chaurī. In front of the chariot two men, apparently running, and before them two horsemen