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The first cast of this important inscription was published by Bhagwan Lal Indraji in 1884, followed by publication of an ink impression in 1906 by Bloch. [8] Indraji was the first scholar to declare that the king eulogised in the Hathigumpha inscription was named Kharavela, [9] but the cast impression, his translation and interpretation had ...
Kharavela [a] was the emperor of Kalinga (present-day eastern coast of India) from 193 to 180 BC.The primary source for Kharavela is his rock-cut Hathigumpha inscription.The inscription is undated, only four of its 17 lines are completely legible, others unclear, variously interpreted and disputed by scholars.
This inscription is engraved on the raised space between the second and third doorways of the cave at Mancapuri. The text in Devanagari script is: . L.1: अरहंत पसादाय कलिंगानं समनानं लेनं कारितं राजिनो ललाकस (this is a transliteration in Devanagari of the original Brahmi)
The Hathigumpha inscription describes the following rulers. [11] It does not directly mention the relationship between Mahameghavahana and Kharavela, or the number of kings between them. [ 12 ] Some historians have interpreted the inscription to create the following hypothetical family tree: [ 11 ]
Important inscriptions include the 33 inscriptions of emperor Ashoka on the Pillars of Ashoka (272 to 231 BCE), the Sohgaura copper plate inscription (earliest known example of the copper plate type and generally assigned to the Mauryan period, though the exact date is uncertain), [17] the Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela (2nd century BCE ...
The Hathigumpha inscription, written by the king of Kalinga, Kharavela, also describes the presence of the Yavana king whose name has been identified as "Demetrius" with his army in eastern India, apparently as far as the city of Rajagriha about 70 km southeast of Pataliputra and one of the foremost Buddhist sacred cities, but claims that this ...
The earliest well known example of an extensive prashasti is the Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela inscribed in or about the 1st-century BCE in Prakrit language and Brahmi script. [7] The earliest prashastic inscription in classical Sanskrit language is the Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman (circa 150 CE), which became a prototype for ...
The inscription also mentions a river, variously identified with Krishna or with the combined flow of Kanha-Wainganga. [18] Since the inscription is only partially legible, different scholars interpret the events described in the inscription differently. According to K.P. Jayaswal and R. D. Banerji, Kharavela sent an army against Satkarani.