L. 1 (1st side) Siddha[.m] maharajasya Kanishkasya rajye sa[.m]vatsare navame [Footnote:  Sac.  Bks.  East, vol.  XXII p. 292.] (2nd side).. masc pratha 1 divase 5 a-(3rd)[sya[.m]] purvvaye Ko[t.]iyato ga[n.]ato Vaniya[to] (4th) [ku]lato Vairito [’s]akato vachaka-

2. (1st side) [sya] [N]agana[m.]disa ni[rva]r[ta]na[.m] Brah[ma] ... [dhu-(2nd)tuye] Bha[t.][t.]umitasa ku[t.]u[[.m]]bi[n]i[ye] Vika[t.]a-(3rd)[ye [’s]ri Vardhamanasya pratima karita sarva-(4th) satva]na[.m] hita-

  3. [sukhaye];

and the translation:—­

“Success!  During the reign of the great king Kanishka, in the ninth year, 9, in the first month, 1, of ..., on the day 5,—­on the above date [an image of glorious Vardhamana has been caused to be made] for the welfare [and happiness] of [all created beings] by Vikata, the house-wife of Bha[t.][t.]imita (Bhat[t.]imitra) and [daughter of] Brahma ...—­(this statue being) the nirvartana of the preacher Nagana[.m]idi, out of the Ko[t.]iya school (ga[n.]a), the Va[n.]iya line (kula), (and) the Vairi branch ([’s]akha).”

If we now turn to the Kalpasutra, we find that Su[t.][t.]hiya or Susthita, the eighth successor of Vardhamana, founded the Kau[t.]ika or Ko[d.]iya ga[n.]a, which split up into four [’s]akhas and four kulas.  The third of the former was the Vajri or Vairi, and the third of the latter was the Va[n.]iya or Va[n.]ijja.  It is evident that the names of the ga[n.]a, kula, and [’s]akha agree with those mentioned in the two inscriptions, Ko[t.]iya being a somewhat older form of Ko[d.]iya.  But it is interesting to note that the further subdivision of the Vairi [’s]akha—­the [’S]irika bhatti (Srika bhakti) which inscription No. 6 mentions, is not known to the Kalpasutra.  This is a gap such as may by be expected to occur in a list handed down by oral tradition.

3.  The Ko[t.]ika ga[n.]a is again mentioned in the badly mutilated inscription No. 19, plate xv.  A complete restoration is impossible.

  L. 1. Sa[.m]valsare 90 va...sya ku[t.]ubani. vadanasya vodhuya...

  2. K|o[t.]iyato| ga[n.]ato |Pra[’s]na|vaha|na|kato kulato
  Majhamato [’s]akhato...sa nikaye bhati galae thabani...

It may, however, be inferred from the fragments of the first line that the dedication was made by a woman who was described as the wife (ku[t.]umbini) of one person and as the daughter-in-law (vadhu) of another.  The first part of line 2, restored as above gives—­“in the congregation of ... out of the Ko[t.]iya school, the Pra[’s]navahanaka line and the Majhama branch....”  The restoration of the two names Ko[t.]iya and Pra[’s]navahanaka seems to me absolutely certain, because they exactly fill the blanks in the inscription, and because the information in the Kalpasutra (S.  B. E. vol.  XXII, p. 293) regarding the Madhyama[’s]akha points in that direction.  The latter work tells us that Priyagantha, the second pupil of Susthita and Supratibuddha, founded a [’s]akha, called Madhyama or Majhima.