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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
TATTVA-GUMPHĀ INSCRIPTION
The following “inscription is written or painted,” says Mr. R. D. Banerji, "on the back wall of the inner chamber of the cave (the Tatwagumpbā, No. 1), and on prolonged examination I found that, in addition to a row of letters which I cannot make out, it was a repetition of the Indian alphabet.”
These observations of Mr. Banerji led me to examine Mr. Hari Das Dutta's estampage closely, and have ultimately enabled me to detect an inscription consisting of one line and a table of Brāhmi alphabet consisting of no less than six rows of letters. The table has been separately presented as the last of the present series (No. XV) of iuscriptions in the caves on the Udayagiri and Khandagiri bills.
The text is based upon Hari Das Dutta's inked impression reproduced by R. D. Banerji in EI, Vol. XIII, Udayagiri and Khandagiri Inscriptions, Pl. II, No. XIII, Cave called Tatwagumphā No. 1.
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