356 Journal of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 1923.] 
is designed perhaps as a protection of in eat the wind 
and signifies symbolically, as explained in a Vedic hymn, a 
dividing line between the living and the ow 
As regards the inscription, I believe that Dr. Hultzsch’s 
reading —‘‘ Dadanikamo chakamo”’ is quite correct. But | 
must confess ny inability to make any meaning out of 
his renderin he enclosure (called) Dandanishkrama.”’ 
prs Cunningham s ae deat Punishment of Works 
es not give much light either. However, both the 
(at pe seem to agree in equating dada or dada w ith danda, 
and differ regarding the division of dadanikamo : 
—dadanikama = dadani + kama = dandani + karma 
H. —dadanikama = dada + nikama = danda + nishkrama. 
In interpreting the inscription in the light of the story 
quoted, I am inclined to accept Hultzsch’s division of the w ord 
and to equate dada with a word like drdha, Pali dalha, meaning 
strong, difficult. That is to say, I] am inclined to render the 
inseription 
“ The sate wherefrom i is difficult.”’! 
|! The Bharaut a ere ‘dadanikamo exactly corre ee" o th 
ag dalhanikkamo, an adjective used adverbially in the Sutta Nipata, 
68: dalhani. ikkaaio. pat care Khaggavisinakappo Here dalhanikkamo, 
Sk. drdhaniskramah, means ‘ eftectin cible escape.’ ‘*Dalho nikkamo 
assati dal anikkamo”? (Sutta, w-Nipate.Commentar y). As for dada=dalha 
and drdha (d standing - ih and dh), compare Virudako= Viritha, 
Virtidha er The Mahavastu version of the ver ds drdhavikrama. 
The idea of nikkama is Sater ed in the seaictl Paeeay HE of 
oe Satta Nips v. 64 and aiintikraniiek of the Mahavastu I., 
ON NF i PP NPs 
