‘Vachasi’ in Rock Edict VI of Asoka

Vasudeva S. Agrawala

‘Vachasi’ in Rock Edict VI of Asoka

Vol. 15 · No. 1March - 1939pp. 143–146English

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“But the Sanskrit rendering of the word vachasi 15 not so certain.”
“The locative vachasi (vrachaspi ot vachambi) વાળ as well be with greater propriety rendered into Sanskrit varchasi meaning ‘a latrine,’ ‘place of defecation,” or more properly ‘a bath-room.””

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Hultzsch, Corpus I
Arthasastra Trans., Dr. Shamasastry
Jataka Text, vol. |
H.Q., MARCH, 1939

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Asoka 110
Kautilya 81
Dr. Mookerji
Dr. Shamasastry
Vasudeva S. Agrawala
Buddha 152
Dr. Hultzsch 7

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Rock Edict VI
T:’paf[attbmiga Jataka
Arthasastra 29

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Vol. 15 · No. 1

1–12Religious Toleration under the Imperial GuptasRamashankar Tripathi 13–37Raja RamnarainS. H. Askari 38–46Inscriptional Evidences Relating to the Development of Classical SanskritDineshchandra Sircar 47–54Malik Sultan Shah LodiA. Halim 55–64Hyder Ali’s Relations with the British GovernmentNarendra Krishna Sinha 65–74Foreign Denominations of Ancient Indian CoinsSurendra Kishore Chakraborty 75–89Crime and Punishment in Jaina LiteratureKalipada Mitra 90–100Doctrines of the Sammitiya School of BuddhismNalinaksha Dutt 101–121The Initiation of WomenJitendra Bimal Chaudhuri 122–124Political Condition of Bengal during Hiuen Tsang’s VisitDhirendra Chandra Ganguly 125–128A Persian Translation of VidyasundaraA. B. M. Habibullah 129–130A Note on the KhatvangaHarihara V. Trivedi 131–136A Tantric Family of the Deccan settled at BenaresChintaharan Chakravarti 137–142Non-Aryan Elements in the Place-names of BengalKrishnapada Goswami 143–146‘Vachasi’ in Rock Edict VI of AsokaVasudeva S. AgrawalaCurrent article 147–166ReviewsMano Mohan Ghosh, Chintaharan Chakravarti, A. B. M. Habibullah, Arthur Berriedale Keith, Amar Nath Roy 167–174Select Contents of Oriental Journals

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