History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c24.18

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A similar record in Śragdharā with foot-prints is at Jambu, in the middle of a stream near a confluence, which is rightly explained by Dr. Vogel as the cremation place of the king. There the inscription mentions the king as having flourished before (purā) at Tārumā. The Chi-Arutön Inscription is in my opinion a similar funeral memorial, probably at the place of his Śrāddha. The Jambu foot-prints are called padavimba-dvayam, which reminds us of the custom still living amongst the Bengal Hindus of taking actual foot-prints of a dead elder before cremation. The third inscription is (at Kēbon Kopi) to commemorate a favourite elephant of the king which bore the name Jayaviśāla. Evidently on its death the memorial was given by the king, like the memorials to noted or favourite horses in the Mughal times. The fourth record is at Tugu (Békasih). It is in five stanzas of anuṣṭubh. It registers the excavation or deepening of two streams, one (nadī) called Chandrabhāgā which had been ‘dug’ first by the Guru, father of king Pūrṇavarman. This ancestor is called rājādhirāja: