Indian Epigraphy c13.297

c13.297

⁵ Ep. Ind., Vol. XXII, p. 166, text lines 33-34. For Taḍāgānāṁ, cf. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 50, text line 23. We have also sahasrāṇi and śatāni and sometimes gosahasra (ibid., Vol. XXVIII, p. 50, text line 23) or aśvamedha (ibid., Vol. XI, pp. 382-83) for vājapeya. The first half is also found as : Ārāmāṇāṁ sahasreṇa taḍāgānāṁ śatena ca (ibid., Vol. XXXII, p. 68, text lines 28), or ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣa-sahasrāṇi ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣa-śatāni ca (ibid., Vol. IX, p. 6, text line 26-27). For Aśvamedha-sahasrena in the first foot, see Ind. Ant., Vol. XVII, p. 122, text lines 58-59. Ep. Carn., Vol. VIII, Sb. No. 391 has kanyā-koṭi-pradānena in the third foot. The verse occurs in the Skanda Purāṇa, op.cit., verse 35 (with aśvamedha for vājapeya and °pradānena bhūmi-hartā viśudhyati); Padma Purāṇa, VI, 33, 37 (with Vāpī-kūpa-sahasreṇa); Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 39 (with Vāpī-kūpa-sahasreṇa aśvamedha°); Parāśara-saṁhitā, XII, 51 (with Vāpī-kūpa-taṭāk-ādyair=vājapeya-śatair=api).