<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bodhisattva_-_Kushana_-_Circa_1st_Century_AD_-_Sravasti_-_Uttar_Pradesh_-_Indian_Museum_-_Kolkata_2012-11-16_1957.JPG" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Bodhisattva_-_Kushana_-_Circa_1st_Century_AD_-_Sravasti_-_Uttar_Pradesh_-_Indian_Museum_-_Kolkata_2012-11-16_1957.JPG/220px-Bodhisattva_-_Kushana_-_Circa_1st_Century_AD_-_Sravasti_-_Uttar_Pradesh_-_Indian_Museum_-_Kolkata_2012-11-16_1957.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="471" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Bodhisattva_-_Kushana_-_Circa_1st_Century_AD_-_Sravasti_-_Uttar_Pradesh_-_Indian_Museum_-_Kolkata_2012-11-16_1957.JPG/330px-Bodhisattva_-_Kushana_-_Circa_1st_Century_AD_-_Sravasti_-_Uttar_Pradesh_-_Indian_Museum_-_Kolkata_2012-11-16_1957.JPG 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Bodhisattva_-_Kushana_-_Circa_1st_Century_AD_-_Sravasti_-_Uttar_Pradesh_-_Indian_Museum_-_Kolkata_2012-11-16_1957.JPG/440px-Bodhisattva_-_Kushana_-_Circa_1st_Century_AD_-_Sravasti_-_Uttar_Pradesh_-_Indian_Museum_-_Kolkata_2012-11-16_1957.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1901" data-file-height="4074"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bodhisattva_-_Kushana_-_Circa_1st_Century_AD_-_Sravasti_-_Uttar_Pradesh_-_Indian_Museum_-_Kolkata_2012-11-16_1957.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Modern photograph</div></div></div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Set-Mahet_Bodhisattva_inscription.jpg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Set-Mahet_Bodhisattva_inscription.jpg/220px-Set-Mahet_Bodhisattva_inscription.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="67" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Set-Mahet_Bodhisattva_inscription.jpg/330px-Set-Mahet_Bodhisattva_inscription.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Set-Mahet_Bodhisattva_inscription.jpg/440px-Set-Mahet_Bodhisattva_inscription.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1350" data-file-height="411"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Set-Mahet_Bodhisattva_inscription.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The inscription</div></div></div>Set-Mahet (also Saheth-Maheth) Bodhisattva, Kanishka or Huvishka period. The sculpture was set up in Sravasti.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/EpigraphiaIndica">Epigraphia Indica VIII</a>. Indian Museum, Calcutta<br><p>The inscription reads:<br>
"In the ..... th year of the Maharaja, the Devaputra Kanishka (or Huvishka?) in the ....th month of ...... on the 10th day, on the date specified above, a Bodhisattva, an umbrella and a stick, the gift of the monk Bala, who knows the Tripitaka, a companion of the monk Pushya(vriddhi), (have been set up) at Sravasti, at the place where the Lord (ie Buddha) used to walk, in the Kosambakuti, at the property of the teachers of the school of Sarvastivadins."
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/EpigraphiaIndica">Epigraphia Indica VIII p.181</a>
ASI 1905
1905-01-01
<p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/EpigraphiaIndica">Epigraphia Indica VIII</a>
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Published 1905