Notes on the Bahapur version of Aśoka's minor rock edict
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9278478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K R Norman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-43 |
| Publication date | 1971-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-869X • E-ISSN: 2051-2066 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0035869x00168704 |
| OpenAlex | W2126281679 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
THE EDITORS OF THE version of Aśoka's first Minor Rock Edict discovered at Bahapur deserve our thanks for making this inscription available so quickly. 1 It is unfortunate that by some error the conventional symbols for a doubtful reading [ ], e.g. [sā]tileke in line 2, and a suggested emendation ( ), e.g. (ā)hā for ahā in line 1, have all been printed as [ ], but a careful examination of the photographs of the rock and of the estampage enables most ambiguities arising from this error to be eliminated. There are several points in the Bahapur version which merit attention, ( a ) By a faulty word-division the editors have printed amha maye in line 3, presumably understanding amha as an ablative form. It is clear from the other versions of the edict that we must have am here, cf. yam in line 2. If we adopt the word-division am hamaye , we obtain a hitherto unattested form of the instrumental of the first person pronoun. In line 2 of the Calcutta-Bairat 2 inscription we find hamā as the equivalent of mamā (= genitive), which is found in lines 13 and 16 of RE 3 V at Kalsi, lines 5 and 12 of SepE I and line 6 of SepE II at Dhauli, and line 12 of PE IV at Delhi-Topra; in line 3 of the Calcutta-Bairat inscription we find hamiyāye as the equivalent of mamiyāye (= instrumental), which is found in line 6 of SepE II at Jaugada; we now have hamaye as the equivalent of mamaye (= instrumental), which is found in line 4 of SepE II at Dhauli
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| Citation span | 1985 - 2000 (16) |
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