Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c14.25

c14.25

Line A5: Aṃtalikita: The Indo-Greek king Antialkidas, otherwise known from coins, who probably ruled in the middle or late second century B.C. Line A6: Kāsīputra Bhāgabhadra: Possibly to be identified with Bhadraka, the fifth Śuṅga king according to some versions of the Purāṇic dynastic lists. Line A7: "in (his) fourteenth regnal year": Instrumental of time or date, "strange" according to Fleet (1910, 815) but paralleled in several other inss.; cf. Vogel, 128, and *imeṇa kṣuṇeṇa* in the Kalawān inscription (Appendix, no. 4, l. 1). Lines B1–2: Similar proverbial expressions have been cited from the Dhammapada (2.1; JRAS 1910, 1093) and the Mahābhārata (Udyoga-parvan 42.22 and 44.7; Arthur Venis, JRAS 1910, 815); e.g., Udyoga 42.22ab, *damas tyāgo 'pramādaś ca eteṣv amṛtam āhitam.*