Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c11.18

c11.18

¹² E.g., Wilkins translates the beginning of the third verse of the Nāgārjunī inscription as “honor was achieved from the deed of death near the uprising ocean,” evidently reading *udīrṇa-mahārṇav-opa-maraṇa-vyāpāra-labdham yaśaḥ*; the correct reading and translation (by Fleet) are *udīrṇa-mahārṇav-opama-raṇa-vyāpāra-labdhaṃ yaśaḥ*, “the renown that he had acquired in the occupation of war resembling . . . the great swollen ocean.”