page_title: Mathura lion capital
section_title: List of inscriptions
hierarchical_section_title: Mathura lion capital / List of inscriptions
caption_attribution_description: English: Mathura lion capital inscriptions
context_page_description: The Mathura lion capital is an Indo-Scythian sandstone capital from Mathura in Northern India, dated to the first decade of the 1st century CE. It was consecrated under the rule of Rajuvula, one of the Northern Satraps of the region of Mathura.
  The capital was unearthed at the Saptarishi mound of Mathura by Bhagwan Lal Indraji in 1869. It is covered with Prakrit inscriptions in the kharoshthi script of northwestern India. The capital was made on the occasion of the funeral of "the illustrious king Muki and his horse".
  The capital describes, among other donations, the gift of a stupa with a relic of the Buddha, by Queen Ayasia, the "chief queen of the Indo-Scythian ruler of Mathura, satrap Rajuvula". The Mathura lion capital, an Indo-Scythian sandstone capital from Mathura in Central India, and dated to the 1st century CE, describes in kharoshthi the gift of a stupa with a relic of the Buddha, by queen Nadasi Kasa, "the wife of Rajuvula" and "daughter of Aiyasi Kamuia", who is mentioned as the "daughter of Kharahostes". The lion capital also mentions the genealogy of several Indo-Scythian satraps of Mathura.
context_section_description: In a Latin transliteration of simplified Kharosthi script, the inscriptions read:
  A1 mahaksha[tra]vasa rajulasa
  "For the Great satrap Rajuvula"
  A2 agra-maheshi ayasia
  "Chief Queen Ayasia,"
  A3 kamuia dhida
  "The kamuia daughter of"
  A4 kharaostasa yuvarana
  "The heir-apparent Kharahostes,"
  A5 mada nada-diakasa [taye]
  A6 sadha matra abuhola[e]
  A7 pitramahi pishpasia bhra
  A8 tra hayuarana sadha hana dhi[tra]
  A9 a[te]urena horaka-pa
  A10 rivarena isha pradhravi-prade
  A11 she nisime sharira pradithavido
  "Has offered relics of"
  A12 bhakhavado shakamunisa budhasa
  "The bhagavat Buddha Sakyamuni"
  A13 muki-[shiri]-raya sashpa [a]bhusavi[ta]
  A14 thuva ca sagharama ca cadu
  A15 dishasa saghasa sarva
  A16 stivadana parigrahe
  E1 kharaosto yuvaraya
  "The heir-apparent Kharahostes,"
  E’ kamuio
  "A kamuia"
  E2 khalamasa kumara
  E3 maja kanitha
  E4 saman[u] moda
  E’’ kha karita
  B1/B2 mahakshatravasa va[ra]julasa putra
  "The son of the Great Satrap Rajuvula:"
  C1 kalui a
  C2 varajo
  C3 sudase kshatrave
  "The Satrap Sodasa"
  D1 nauludo
  M1 kshatrave sudise
  M2 imo padhravi
  M3 pradesho
  I1 veyaudirna kadhavaro busapa
  I2 ro kadha
  I3 varo
  I4 vi ya u
  J1 rvaraparena palichina
  J2 nisimo karita niyadido
  H' dhamadana
  H guhavihare
  KL1 ayariasa
  KL2 budhadevasa
  "The divine Buddha"
  KL3 udaena ayimi[ta]
  F1 budhilasa nakharaasa
  F2 bhikhusa sarvastivadasa
  "Sarvastivada monk"
  G1/G2 mahakshat[r]avasa kusul[u]asa patikasa mevaki[sa] miyikasa kshat[r]avasa puyae
  "The satrap Miyika honours the great satrap Kusulaka Patika"
  J3 sarvastivadana parigrahe
  N1 ayariasa budhilasa nakharakhasa bhikhu
  N2 sa sarvastivadasa pagra
  N3 na mahasaghiana pra
  N4 ma navidave khalulasa
  O1/O2 sarvabudhana puya dhamasa puya saghasa puya
  "Revere all the Buddhas, revere the dharma, revere the sangha"
  P1/P2 sarvasa sakhasta nasa puyae
  "In reverence of all the dead Sakas"
  Q1 khardaasa
  "Kharda"
  Q2 kshatravasa
  "the Satrap"
  R1 takshilasa
  "Taxila"
  R2 kroninasa
  J'1 khalasamu
  J'2 so
caption: Layout of the Mathura lion capital inscriptions.[5]
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