1920.] Cinna Inscription of Sri-Yajia Satakarni. 329 
restored. Here too how many letters are lost after mahadamy 
is not certain. * The portion after dhaya is completely broken 
ayvay and lost. 
TRANSLATION. 
Success! Adoration to the bhagavat Vasudeva! On the 
the twenty-seventh—27th—year, during the existence of the 
dynasty of the ki Prion 3 « Kideai : 
eevee ee evar 
NoTEs. 
Bihler writes, ‘‘ If the syllables dhaya at the beginning of 
1. 6 are the remnant of Budhaya it may have been the record 
of some Buddhistic donation or dedication.”—Ep. Ind., Vol. 
J, p.96. But the invocation with which the inscription opens 
roves beyond all doubt that it is a Vaishnavite and not a 
Buddhistic record. 
cannot agree with Biihler! and Liiders® in taking araka 
which is a title of the king as an equivalent of aryaka, i.e. 
‘lord,’ though I admit that here it serves the same purpose 
and connotes the same sense as the word svamin by which he 
Golamiputa-sadraka, ete., by Professor Bhandarkar.’ Over and 
above his objection, that araka as a Prakrit equivalent of aryaka 
was not possible, to which reference has already been made, he 
further contended that sadraka was the same as ksahara, which 
according to him was to be read on a Besnagar coin of Sri- 
Yajiia Satakarni, and ksa-a-ru, which he proposed to read on a 
Sopara coin of the same king, against ku-a-ru of Pandit Bhag- 
Ep. Ind., Vol. I, p. 96, n. 8. 
List of Brahmi Insers., p. 160, No. 1340. 
Ep. Ind., Vol. VIL, p. 67. ; 
Annual Rep., Arch. Surv Ind., 1913-14, pp. 213-14. 
List of Brahmi Inscrs., Nos, 1001-2. } 
Ibid., p. 214. 1 Loe. ett. 
aarekt vn = 
