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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
INSCRIPTION OF CŪLAKAMMA
The following “record," says Mr. R. D. Banerji, “consists of a single line and is incised over one of the three entrances to the main chamber of the cave from the verandah. The characters belong to the first century B. C. and are distinctly later in form than those of the Mañcapuri inscriptions (meaning Nos. II-IV)."
Of the cave itself which is an excavation on the Udayagiri bill, we bave the following useful information from Rājā Rājendra Lala Mitra's Antiquities of Orissa, Vol. II, p. 30:
“Immediately to the north of the Elephant-Cave (Hāthi-Gumpbā) there is a small excavation which is known under the name of PāvanaGumpbā or the 'Cave of Purification. It is of no importance whatever as a work of art."
The text is based upon Major Kittoe's facsimile read and reproduced by James Prinsep in JASB, old series, Vol. VI, Pl. LVII, Cave No. 5 called Pawan-Cave; lājendra Lāla Mitra's copy of Prinsep's transcript in bis Antiquities of Orissa, Vol. II, p. 30; Alexander Cunningham's band-copy reproduced in Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, old series, Vol. I, Pl. XVII, Cave No. 6 called Pawan-Cave; Lüders' List of Brāhmi Inscriptions in EI, Vol. X, Appendix, No. 1353, Cave called Haridāsgumpha; Hari Das Dutta's inked impression read and reproduced by R. D. Banerji in EI, Vol. XIII, Udayagiri and Khandagiri Inscriptions, Pl. II, No. VI, Cave called Haridās Cave; and, above all, A. E. Caddy's cast preserved in the Indian Museum, Calcutta,
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