3. The Kotika gana is again mentioned in the badly mutilated inscription No. 19, plate xv. A complete restoration is impossible.
L. 1. Sam[postvocalic]
valsare 90 va...sya kut
ubani. vadânasya vodhuya...
2. K|ot
iyato| gan
ato |Praśna|vâha|na|kato kulato Majhamâto śâkhâto...sa nikâye bhati gâlâe thabâni...
It may, however, be inferred from the fragments of the first line that the dedication was made by a woman who was described as the wife (kut
umbinî) of one person and as the daughter-in-law (vadhu) of another. The first part of line 2, restored as above gives--"in the congregation of ... out of the Kotiya school, the Praśnavâhanaka line and the Majhamâ branch...." The restoration of the two names Kotiya and Praśnavâhanaka seems to me absolutely certain, because they exactly fill the blanks in the inscription, and because the information in the Kalpasûtra (S. B. E. vol. XXII, p. 293) regarding the Madhyamâśâkhâ points in that direction. The latter work tells us that Priyagantha, the second pupil of Susthita and Supratibuddha, founded a śâkhâ, called Madhyamâ or Majhimâ.
As our inscriptions show that Professor Jacobi's explanation of the terms gan