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Nanaghat pass stretches over the Western Ghats, through an ancient stone laid hiking trail to the Nanaghat plateau. The pass was the fastest key passage that linked the Indian west coast seaports of Sopara, Kalyan and Thana with economic centers and human settlements in Nasik, Paithan, Ter and others, according to Archaeological Survey of India. [10]
English: The Naneghat Sanskrit inscriptions were eye-copied by Sykes in 1833 and published in 1837. These Brahmi script inscriptions are found in a cave the Western Ghats, Maharashtra. Sykes guessed in 1837 these were Buddhist inscriptions. The first translation was published by Georg Buhler which showed that these were Hindu inscriptions.
English: Naneghat, also spelled Nanaghat, is a high plateau and pass through the Western Ghats in Maharashtra. Stone steps lead to through this pass between the Konkan area and Junnar, an ancient town. On top of Naneghat pass are caves, ancient ones. One of them is large and has panels of ancient Sanskrit inscriptions in Brahmi script.
The Hathibada Ghosundi Inscriptions, sometimes referred simply as the Ghosundi Inscription or the Hathibada Inscription, is the oldest Sanskrit inscriptions in the Brahmi script, and dated to the 1st century BCE.
The Nasik inscription of Ushavadata is an inscription made in the Nasik Caves by Ushavadata, a son-in-law of the Western Satraps ruler Nahapana, in the years circa 120 CE. It is the earliest known instance of the usage of Sanskrit , although a rather hybrid form, in western India.
The oldest inscription is a version of Ashoka edicts, while the last and third inscription is of Skandagupta. The Rudradaman inscription is near the top, above the Ashoka edict. [3] It is dated to shortly after 150 CE. [1] The inscription has twenty lines, of different lengths spread over about 5.5 feet high and 11 feet wide.
An inscription on the Southern Gateway records that it was the work of Satakarni II's royal architect Ananda. [78] An inscription records the gift of one of the top architraves of the Southern Gateway by the artisans of the Satavahana Emperor Satakarni: Gift of Ananda, the son of Vasithi, the foreman of the artisans of rajan Siri Satakarni [79]
The paleography of the inscription is identical to that of the Northern Satraps in Mathura, which gives a 1st century CE date. [1] The damaged inscription is notable for its mention of general Pushyamitra and his descendant Dhana–, his use of Vedic Ashvamedha horse to assert the range of his empire, and the building of a temple shrine. [7]