The Naneghat Inscription dating 1st century BCE is a significant historical record from ancient India, located in Naneghat, a mountain pass in the Sahyadri range of Maharashtra, India. Written in the Brahmi script, it uses the Prakrit language.
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The inscription mentions the Satavahana king Satakarni and his mother, Lavalamika, his wife Naganika, his sons SkandaĹri, Hakusiri and KumÄra SÄtavÄhana. Nagakarnika was daughter of a MahÄrathi. She was a great administrator.
**Earliest mention of Murtis** other than one by Alexander their great
The inscription provides evidence that Hindu dynasties sponsored sculptures and secular life-size murti (pratima) by the 1st century BCE.
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21 Vedic Yajnas defined on the inscription
1. AgnyÄdheya:
2. AnvÄrambhaášiya:
3. VÄjapeya:
4. AngÄrika:
5. Name mutilated:
6. RÄjasĹŤya:
7. AĹvamedha:
The AĹvamedha yajĂąa was performed for 3 years. SÄtakaráši performed this yajĂąa twice which implies that he had to establish his sovereignty twice and that there is a possibility that his supremacy may have been challenged after the performance of the first AĹvamedha yajĂąa. The second AĹvamedha yajĂąa, in all probability indicates his regaining his hegemony. SÄtakaráši extended the SÄtavÄhana rule beyond the Deccan Region and he was undoubtedly a great conqueror. In the inscription he has been eulogised as ĚPášášhvyÄḼ Prathama VÄŤra Ě or the foremost warrior of the earth. The donations given during these yajna included a horse with silver trappings and decorated with gold ornaments, 14,000 KÄrᚣapaášas and one cart with grains. Apart from these, a village was also donated and this is one of the first instances of the donation of a village to a beneficiary and this custom was continued by the later SÄtavÄhana rulers and became a common practice by the Gupta period. The Ĺatapatha BrÄhmaáša mentions different types of AĹvamedha yajĂąas. Different varieties of animals â both wild and domesticated were to be brought to the yajĂąa vedi and the wild animals were to let go after the fire was taken around them.
8. SaptadaĹÄtrÄtra:
9. BhagaladaĹarÄtra:
10. GargatrirÄtra:
11. GavÄmayana:
12. Aáš
girasÄmayana:
13. ĹatÄtirÄtra:
14. Aáš
girasatrirÄtra:
15. ChandopavamÄnÄtrirÄtra:
16. TrayodaĹÄtirÄtra:
17. DaĹarÄtra:
20. ÄptoryÄma:
19. ĹaášÄtirÄtra:
20. AášgirasÄmayana:
21. SaptadaĹatirÄtra: