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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 Nasik and Karle inscriptions refer to Nahapana's dynastic name (Kshaharata, for "Kshatrapa") but not to his ethnicity (Saka-Pahlava), which is known from other sources. [13] Nahapana had a son-in-law named Ushavadata (Sanskrit: Rishabhadatta), whose inscriptions were incised in the Pandavleni Caves near Nasik. Ushavadata was son of Dinika ...
The Nasik inscription of the 19th year of Sri Pulamavi also mentions the Khakharatavasa, or Kshaharata race. [11] The earliest Kshaharata for whom there is evidence is Abhiraka, whose rare coins are known. He was succeeded by Bhumaka, father of Nahapana, who only used on his coins the title of Satrap, and not that of Raja or Raño (king).
Nasik Cave inscription No.10. of Ushavadata, Cave No.10. Much of the information about Ushavadata comes from his Nashik and Karle inscriptions. The Nashik inscription contains an eulogy of Ushavadata in Sanskrit, and then records the donation of a cave to Buddhists in a Middle Indo-Aryan language. The Karle inscription contains a similar eulogy ...
A coin of Nahapana restruck by the Satavahana king Gautamiputra Satakarni.Nahapana's profile and coin legend are still clearly visible. The defeated "Saka-Yavana-Palhava" (Brahmi script: 𑀲𑀓 𑀬𑀯𑀦 𑀧𑀮𑁆𑀳𑀯) mentioned in the Nasik cave 3 inscription of Queen Gotami Balasiri (end of line 5 of the inscription).
Archaeologists have finally deciphered the meaning, long debated, of a text inscribed on an ancient Turkish monument. The heavily damaged inscription, written in the Old Phrygian language, is ...
The Trirashmi Caves, [1] or Nashik Caves or Pandavleni. Most of the caves are viharas except for Cave 18 which is a chaitya of the 1st century BCE. [2] The style of some of the elaborate pillars or columns, for example in caves 3 and 10, is an important example of the development of the form. [3]
— Inscription No.12 of Nahapana, Cave No.10, Nasik [83] According to the inscriptions, Ushavadata accomplished various charities and conquests on behalf of his father-in-law. He constructed rest-houses, gardens and tanks at Bharukachchha ( Broach ), Dashapura ( Mandasor in Malva ), Govardhana (near Nasik ) and Shorparaga ( Sopara in the Thana ...