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1. Taxila Inscription of Patik
Sachin Kr. Tiwary
Displayed at the British Museum, London

2. Taxila
Inscription of
Patik
Language
Sanskrit
Purpose
Issuer
Patika
Kusulaka
Importance
Medium
Copper
Script
Kharosthi
Technique
Nailing
Location
Punjab, in
modern
Pakistan
Date
100 BCE-
100 CE

3. Location Location of Finding-
• Taxila, Gandhara, Punjab, in modern Pakistan,
Other Name-
• Also called the Moga Inscription or the Patika
Copper plate,
Where is now-
• British Museum, London (Reg. No. OA
1967.10-18.5)
Date-
• The copper plate is dated to a period between
the 1st century BCE and the 1st century CE. It
bears a date: the 5th day of the Macedonian
month of Panemos, in the year 78 of king
Moga. It is thought it may be related to the
establishment of a Maues era, which would
give a date around 6 CE.
Technique- Nailing.

4. Introduction-
• Medium & Script- The copper plate is written in the Kharosthi
script.
• Purpose- It relates the dedication of a relic of the Buddha to a
Buddhist monastery by the Indo-Scythian (Pali: "śaka") ruler
Patika Kusulaka, son of Liaka Kusulaka, satrap of Chukhsa, near
Taxila.
• Importance-
 The inscription is significant in that it documents the fact that
Indo-Scythians practiced the Buddhist faith.
 It is also famous for mentioning Patika Kusulaka, who also
appears as a "Great Satrap" in the Mathura lion capital
inscription.
 Another fascinating detail about the Taxila Copper Plate is that
the date is according to the Greek calendar and more
specifically, the variation which the Macedonians used. The
month Panemos is the 9th month of the calendar, between
modern June and July.

5. Text of the inscription (Total Line-05)
1 [samva]tsaraye athasatatimae 20 20 20 10 4 4 maharayasa mahamtasa mogasa pa[ne]masa masasa
divase pamcame 4 1 etaye purvaye kshaha[ra]ta[sa]
2 [cukh]sa ca kshatrapasa liako kusuluko nama tasa [pu]tro pati[ko] takhaśilaye nagare utarena pracu
deśo kshema nama atra
3 (*de)she patiko apratithavita bhagavata śakamunisa shariram (*pra)tithaveti [samgha]ramam ca
sarvabudhana puyae mata-pitaram puyayamt(*o)
4 [kshatra]pasa saputradarasa ayu-bala-vardhi[e] bhratara sarva ca [nyatiga-bamdha]vasa ca puyayamto
maha-danapati patikasa jauvanyae
5 rohinimitrenya ya ima[mi] samgharame navakamika
Reverse: Patikasa kshatrapa Liaka
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5

6. Original text of the Taxila Copper Plate Inscription
1. In the seventy-eighth, 78, year of the Great King, the Great Moga, on the fifth, 5, day of the month
Panemos, on this first, of the Kshaharata
2. and Kshatrapa of Chukhsa–Liaka Kusulaka by name – his son Patika - in the town of Takshasila, to the north,
the eastern region, Kshema by name
3. In this place Patika establishes a (formerly not) established relic of the Lord Shakyamuni and a sangharama
(through Rohinimitra who is the overseer of work of this sangharama)
4. For the worship of all Buddhas, worshipping his mother and father, for the increase of the life and power of
the Kshatrapa, together with his son and wife, worshipping all his brothers and his blood-relations and
kinsmen.
5. At the jauva-order of the great gift-lord Patika
To Patika the Kshatrapa Liaka
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7. • Patika Kusulaka was an Indo-Sythian satrapin
the northwestern South Asia during the 100 BCE.
• Patika Kusulaka is also mentioned in the Mathura
Lion Capital.
• Indo-Scythians (also called Indo-Sakas) were
a group of nomadic Iranian
peroples of Saka and Scythian origin who
migrated southward into western and northern
South Asia
(Sogdiana, Bactria, Arachosia, Gandhara, Sindh, K
ashmir, Punjab, Haryana, UttarPradesh, Bihar, R
ajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra) from the
middle of the 200 BCE to the 400 CE.
• Satraps were the governors of the provinces of
the ancient Median & Achaemenian Empire and
in several of their successors, such as in the
Sasanian Empire & the Hellenistic Empires.
South Asia

8. Other
Sources
Sources-
• The Taxila Inscription of the Year 136, J. F. Fleet, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and
Ireland, (Oct., 1914), pp. 992-999.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Scythians
Technique of Execution-
Nailing
Ancient Modern
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