The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.99

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In the second inscription Ushavadâta is spoken of as having, in the year 42, dedicated the cave monastery for the use of the Buddhist mendicant priests coming to it from the four quarters. "He deposited with a guild of weavers residing in Govardhana a sum of two thousand Kârshâpanas at an annual interest of one hundred Kârshâpanas. Out of this interest he directed that a garment should annually be given to each of the twenty priests residing during the rains in his cave monastery. With another guild he deposited one thousand Kârshâpanas, the interest on which was seventy-five Kârshâpanas. Out of this other things (Kusana) were to be provided for the priests. The carrying out of these directions was secured by their being declared in the corporation of the town of Govardhana and inscribed on the door of the monastery. In the years 41 and 40 he gave away a large sum of money² for gods and Brâhmans. The third inscription, which is a short one, mentions that the apartment on which it is engraved was the religious benefaction of Ushavadâta's wife Dakhamitrâ.³ The fourth is greatly mutilated but sufficient remains to show that that also records similar gifts of Ushavadâta's.⁴ In the cave-temple of Kârli there is an inscription in which Ushavadāta is represented to have granted the village of Karjika for the support of the mendicant priests in the cave monastery of Valūraka, as the hill or the country about it seems to have been called at the time.¹ There also is given an account of his charities similar to that in the first of his Nāsik inscriptions. In an inscription at Junnar, Ayama, the minister of the lord Nahapāna the great Kshatrapa, is mentioned as having caused a tank to be dug and a hall to be constructed.² The minister appears to have been a Brāhman, since he is spoken of as belonging to the Vatsa Gotra.