Indian Antiquary Vol 01

SR No.: 032493
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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THE NYAYAKUSUMANJALI.
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These pillars are partly hewn in situ, and partly I crept in through a breach in the wall of the built up of separate pieces, and on their plaster- sculptured vihara, my men following. However ed surface and that of the side walls are several this, and two more beyond it, are similar in paintings of Buddha, either seated or standing, character to the first cave under the fall. always supported by the lotus, crowned with an These caves must have had a fine façade, and aureole, and overshadowed by a triple umbrella. probably there were one or two small ones above, The colours are brighter than any now at approached by passages the remains of which Ajanta. I could find no inscriptions but some still exist, but the whole front of the cliff has scratches on the plaster, which I do not believe come down in a common mass of ruins, destroyto be ancient, and some flaring red painting the upper caves, and blocking up the lower letters recording the visit of Dr. Bhau Daji and ones. Mr. Somebody Garúd of Dhoolia. The next I heard of an inscription near here, but was cave is a vihara and very curious. The cells unable to find it. I believe these caves were in are divided by pilasters having each a capital former days reported on by Mr. Rose, C.8., something like a wool sack or a ship's rope a copy of whose report is given in Dr. J. fender, carved in so intricate a pattern that at Wilson's "Second Memoir on the Cave Temples" first I mistook them for inscriptions. Above in the Bombay Asiatic Society's Journal (vol. this capital each plaster has a separate pair of IV. p. 857-359). They have been visited by animals. The first are humped bulls, the second Dr. Bhau Daji, but that learned Orientalist has .winged griffins, the third winged dogs, the not, I think, published the result of his researchfourth winged horses, the fifth winged ante- es. The local legend of Bhawani hunting the lopes, the sixth elephants and the seventh winged Daityas into the rock points, I think, to a tigers. There are one or two more, destroyed Brahmanical raid upon the Buddbists, and it and unrecognisable.
may be noted that the Gai Ghat is the only pass In the large Chaitya I had in vain tried to by which a force from the plain could turn the persuade my Bhill guard that the caves were flank of the whole group of caves and block up built by men like themselves, which they all avenues of escape, without being easily stou tly declared to be impossible, disputing perceived. among themselves whether the five Pêndus or The whole Satmala range is full of promise the Daityas could have done it. However in this for the archæologist. Two years ago Mr. Campvihara they held a fresh palaver on the subject, bell, 0.8, discovered a new group in the old and finally the naik came forward and said that fort of Wasigarh, which I believe Major Gill after all they thought the sahib was right. has further explored, and Mr. Pottinger, C.E., “For these cells were obviously made to sleep | found what I believe to be a large vihâra near in, like those in the lock-up, and no man will the Gotala Ghát. Caution, however, and a presume to say that the Daityas and the Pân- double gun loaded with ball are necessary in all davas could squeeze themselves into such holes these places. In one cave in the Pital Khora as these." Next to this cave is another vihara I found fresh traces of a panther, and in the the entrance to which is blocked up, but after next some gnawed bones that told their own ascertaining that there was no wild beast inside, story,
THE DATE OF THE NYÁYAKUSUMÁNJALI. BY KASHINATH TRIMBAK TELANG, SENIOR DAKSHINA FELLOW, ELPHINSTONE COLLEGE. In the preface to his edition of the Nykyakusu- Udayanacharya is mentioned with expressions mânjali, Professor E. B. Cowell has endeavoured of high respect by Madhavâchârja, he has, on to fix the age of Udayapacharya, the author of the other, commented on a work of Váchaspati that work. The result of his reasoning he thus Miéra, who is himself one of the commentators states :-"Perbaps, therefore," he says, “We of the great Sankaracharya. Now as the dates may without fear of much error fix Vachaspati of Sankaracharya and Madhavacharya may be Miéra in the tenth and Udayanacharys in the taken with tolerable safety to be respectively in twelfth century." This conclusion, Prof. Cowell the eighth and fourteenth centuries of the Christbases on the fact, that while on the one handian era, we have, according to Prof. Cowell, “a