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On the Mauryan Pillar :- Various excavations were made, from time to time, to ascertain if any original inscription existed on the pillar, but no such inscription was found. As late as 1903 Bloch also made an attempt but to no result. In 1861-62 Cunningham, however, had discovered a few short records on the buried position of the shaft in the “shell characters”, which have not been deciphered so far, nor have they been dated with certainty. The shaft is covered by numerous scribbling made by visitors, in English as well as nagari, two of the early English records mention the names of “G.H.Barlow, 1780” and “Reuben Burrow, 1792.”
2. On the Image of the Buddha, found in worship in modern temple on the stupa near the pillar. It records the pious gift of the image by one Utsaha, son of Manikya and is assigned to 8th or 9th century by Cunningham. It is not included in Bhandarkar’s list.
3. On pedestal of a broken image found at the site and presented by Stephenson to the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1835 and now in Indian Museum, Kolkata. The inscription contains the usual Buddhist creed formulae only.
4. On pedestal of a broken image found at the site and presented by Stephenson to the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1835 and now in Indian Museum, Kolkata. The inscription contains the usual Buddhist creed formulae only.
Silent Pages of Ancient Vaishali concluded!