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BUDDHIST CAVE-TEMPLES.
geographers, on the island of Trombay ; and Vasya perhaps Vasai
or Bassein. Sri Staanaka or Thana, itself, and Ghodabandar were
also doubtless thriving towns.
Chaitva Caves.
The cave first met in the way up the hill, and the most important
one in the whole series, is the great Chaitya cave, Plate LIIL, so
______._______________- , __ often described. On the jamb of
hXCjrift F'^\$~[$!Jl'~'- at I the entrance to the verandah of it
is an inscription or lajna fen bata-
karni or Gautamiputra II., the
same whose name we have just
mentioned as found on No. 81;
indeed, the inscription here being
much mutilated, it is only by help
of the other that we can hope to
make it out.1 It seems, however,
to be integral, and it is conse-
quently not improbable that the cave
was excavated during his reign.
Till, however, the dates of the
reigns of the Andhrabhritya king'
are determined with more preci-
sion than they are at present,2 the
exact date of their excavation must
remain for future investigation.
The fact is we meet here exactly
Ko. 62. Capital of Pillar representing Tree the same problem that prevente
Worship, from the Chaitya Cave at Kanheri. our ^ejno. able to fix the dates <»
1 But few of the inscriptions iu these caves have yet been satisfactorily decip •
Many of them are much abraded, and owing to the weatherworn uneven surface
rock it is difficult to take good impressions of them. Dr. Stevenson attemp e
translate them from Lieut. Brett's copies (Jour. B. B. B. A. Soc« vol. v. PP- *
but they were inaccurate. A better series of copies were token by E. W. >>es >
(J. B. B. H. A. S., vol. vi. pp. 1-14), but some of them were lithographed on motf
small a scale. Bhagwanlal Indraji Pandit has given a good transcript and tians
of Mr. West's No. 19 from Cave 36 («/. B. li. B. A. Soc, vol. xi. p. 407), &mm ^
name of Madariputra, one of the Andra kings; and also versions ofNos- a-
ib., vol. xiii. p. 11.
2 See list of the Andhrabhritya kings, page 265, ante.
BUDDHIST CAVE-TEMPLES.
geographers, on the island of Trombay ; and Vasya perhaps Vasai
or Bassein. Sri Staanaka or Thana, itself, and Ghodabandar were
also doubtless thriving towns.
Chaitva Caves.
The cave first met in the way up the hill, and the most important
one in the whole series, is the great Chaitya cave, Plate LIIL, so
______._______________- , __ often described. On the jamb of
hXCjrift F'^\$~[$!Jl'~'- at I the entrance to the verandah of it
is an inscription or lajna fen bata-
karni or Gautamiputra II., the
same whose name we have just
mentioned as found on No. 81;
indeed, the inscription here being
much mutilated, it is only by help
of the other that we can hope to
make it out.1 It seems, however,
to be integral, and it is conse-
quently not improbable that the cave
was excavated during his reign.
Till, however, the dates of the
reigns of the Andhrabhritya king'
are determined with more preci-
sion than they are at present,2 the
exact date of their excavation must
remain for future investigation.
The fact is we meet here exactly
Ko. 62. Capital of Pillar representing Tree the same problem that prevente
Worship, from the Chaitya Cave at Kanheri. our ^ejno. able to fix the dates <»
1 But few of the inscriptions iu these caves have yet been satisfactorily decip •
Many of them are much abraded, and owing to the weatherworn uneven surface
rock it is difficult to take good impressions of them. Dr. Stevenson attemp e
translate them from Lieut. Brett's copies (Jour. B. B. B. A. Soc« vol. v. PP- *
but they were inaccurate. A better series of copies were token by E. W. >>es >
(J. B. B. H. A. S., vol. vi. pp. 1-14), but some of them were lithographed on motf
small a scale. Bhagwanlal Indraji Pandit has given a good transcript and tians
of Mr. West's No. 19 from Cave 36 («/. B. li. B. A. Soc, vol. xi. p. 407), &mm ^
name of Madariputra, one of the Andra kings; and also versions ofNos- a-
ib., vol. xiii. p. 11.
2 See list of the Andhrabhritya kings, page 265, ante.