Local Government in Ancient India c9.110.3

c9.110.3

1,000 mentions the gift of a cave and cistern by a merchant named Isipāla; no. 1,001 of a cave by a merchant; no. 1,005 of a cave by a jeweller (*maṇikāra*), Nāgapālita of Śūrpāraka; no. 1,024 the gift of a cave, and a hall (*koḍhi*) by Apareṇu the son of a Kalyāṇa merchant; and no. 1,032 the gift of a path (? *patha*) by the blacksmith (Kamāra) Nada (Nanda) from Kalyāṇa. Nos. 1,202, 1,203, and 1,204 record gift of five entrance pillars to the Great Caitya of Velagiri by the foreman of a guild of artisans (*āvesanin*) named Sidhatha. No. 1,298, an Amarāvatī inscription, mentions another foreman Nadabhuti (Nandabhūti). In the Kudā Buddhist cave inscriptions (nos. 1,063, 1,064) we have the gifts of a cave by the śeṭh Vasulaṇaka and of a cistern (*poḍhī*) by the same śeṭh. In the Mahāḍ Buddhist cave inscription (1,073) we have the gift of a cave (*leṇa*) and a Caitya hall (*cetiakoḍhi*) by the wife of the śeṭh Saṃgharakhita and in the Kol Buddhist cave inscription (1,075) the gift of a cave by the śeṭh of the same name. In the Kārli Buddhist cave inscription (*Ep. Ind.*, vol. VII, p. 48) we have the establishment of a cave-dwelling (*śelaghara*) the most excellent one in Jambudvīpa, by the śeṭh Bhutapāla from Vejayaṃtī (Vaijayantī), or Banavāsi in the North Kanara district. The Beḍsā Buddhist cave inscription (1,109) mentions the gift of Pusaṇaka (Puṣya), son of the śeṭh Ānada from Nāsika.