Person: Michael WILLIS

བསམ་ཡས། Bsam yas, Tibet

Bsam yas pillar (རྡོ་རིང་). Detail of pillar by Hugh Richardson (Tibet Album)

University of Oxford no. 2001.59.13.38.1

བསམ་ཡས།

རྡོ་རིང་

INIG1350a  kārttika badi 7 budhavāra Surwāyā (Shivpuri). 23 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions the excavation of a well (vāpī) and the laying out of a garden (vāṭikā) by rāṇaka Cāciga, dharmaputra of the Yajvapāla king Gopāla and servant of Gaṇapati. Cāciga was of the Lubdhaka family (i.e. Lodhā). Composed by Māthura kāyastha Jayasiṁha, son of Lohaṭa and written by Mahārāja. Now in the collection of the Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.

INIG1349 [Provenance not recorded, possibly from Morena district]. On a stone slab. 17 lines, nāgarī, corrupt Sanskrit. Mentions the construction of a tank by mahatā Jaitasiṁha of Lodhā family when Cāhamāna Hamīradeva was ruling Śakambara. Now in the collection of the Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.

INIG1348c āṣāḍha badi 11, Kolāras (Shivpuri). On a satī stone. 3 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions a satī, apparently of the queen of Govindarāja.

INIG1348b vaiśākha śudi 15 śanau Narwar (Shivpuri). On a Jaina image in a temple at the western foot of the fort. Number of lines not given, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions the dedication of the image.

INIG1348a caitra sudi 8 gurudine puṣyanakṣatre Surwāyā (Shivpuri). Recovered from a tank. 33 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions the construction of a tank (vāpikā) by ṭhakkur Vāmana in the time of Gaṇapati, son of Gopāla. Praises the city of Mathurā from whence the kāyasthas originated. Composed by Somamiśra, son of Somadhara, written by Mahārāja, son of Somarāja, and incised by Devasiṁha, son of Mādhava.

INIG134[?] caitra śudi 8 guruvāra Barokhar (Morena). On a memorial stone. 17 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions śrīmad Gopāla. Not completely legible.

Pauni (पौनि Bhandārā district) Maharashtra. Stūpa site with modern temple

Pauni (पौनि Bhandārā district) Maharashtra. Donative Inscription of the upāsika Visamitā.