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the sense of ‘a symbol for Enlightenment.’ They go so far as to 
indicate that the inscription was meant as a label for a 
sculptural representation of the Bodhicakra which is now miss- 
ing. Cunningham takes it to be the name of the place of which 
the donor was the inhabitant. But he also suggests that there 
may have been a Bodhicakra as well as a Dharmacakra symbol. 
Judging by the general grammatical construction of the votive 
labels, one cannot but take Boddhicaka as an epithet used in 
in contradistinction to Dhamacaka. In that case, one might 
conjecture that at the time of the construction of the Bharaut 
railing, there were two distinct symbols in use among the 
Buddhists, one, namely, the Bodhicakra, characterising a 
tendency towards the ideal of Buddhahood, and the other, 
namely the Dharmuacakra, characterising the tendency towards 
the ideal of Discipleship. The rendering given by Hultzsch 
and Liiders is highly suggestive and does commend itself to our 
ready acceptance, provided that it can be shown that the label 
is attached to an actual symbolical representation of Bodhi 
on the Bharaut railing. 
