270 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. II. 



Line i. Tattobi Buda Anota kogo ino Buda ji bei niito Sagota : niaru 

 taku viado tsiibe — 

 honour Budha Anota press prayer Budha temple companion 

 King Sagota : round house foundation destroy 

 Line 2. — sJiita Sagota no kami tobai: fii desJii tai kiidaki beri atota DZU 

 did Sagota of lordly companion : law disciple desire broken ruin 

 to raise up 

 Line 3. Buda Anota hiromeku : tadasha : mi to Sagota yobidata hitnku 

 ouiakadsu 

 Budha Anota proclaiming: righteous: king Sagota has convoked 

 poor rich 

 Line 4. Ta j gohiyo shigo 7ie ri tosJii ga gashita jigo vtihadzu yaku Buda 

 who 3 day's labour work will 300 years of united deeds overlook 

 promises Budha 

 Line 5. DesJiita Sagota art mo kokonote : mo j futa to Buda shi go 



became a disciple Sagota is even 9 100 3 20 10 Budha death after 

 Line 6. Mite matoku zvabi do ri dsume ^ ■' 



see approve peace path reason convinced 



Freely: "The companions of the temple of Budha petition King 

 Sagota to honour Budha Anota. The noble consort of Sagota has broken 

 down the foundation of the Round House. The disciples of the Law 

 desire to raise up the broken down ruin. The righteous King Sagota^ 

 proclaiming Budha Anota, has summoned the poor and the rich. 



"Of him who will do three day's work Budha promises to overlook the 

 united deeds of 300 years. When Sagota became a disciple, it was even 

 nine hundred, three score and ten after the death of Budha. 



"See that ye approve the path of peace, being convinced by reason." 



Still another inscription, and a brief one, is line 10 of No. XVII in 

 Inscriptions de I'lenissei. It is within a circle, embracing a triangle that 

 contains a Budhist hat surmounted by a cross. Even in this simple 

 document, Messrs. Aspelin and Donner have gone astray, by turning un- 

 mistakable 710 or na into to. Such an error in so simple a document 

 involves the whole of their printed inscriptions in uncertainty, and takes 

 away all heart from him who, by their means, would fain penetrate the 

 obscurity of the Siberian past. 



M. Youferoff's version of No. XVII, line 10, in Inscriptions de 

 I'lenissei: 



No. XVII. line 10. Shu Buda to ta ku no da na sa ku shi ba ta 



