270 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [YoL. IV. 



image. 'The rest cannot be made out satisfactorily.'" ^-^ It is true that 

 parts of the document are defaced, nevertheless I read : 



No. 3. Tsushiku ga viito Tsurami 2 inaki 2 fit j Biida go Tsumaki tania 

 fiuni tsiiku 



Ainrita ga koga sai Gorami inesume tsuta dzubotsu * ma * vtu 

 go bu ma tsuraka aritama^^ 



Translated, it says : " Tsurami, king of the world, 243 after Buddha, 

 affixes the usual writing of the descendant of Tsumaki. His servant 

 . . , joins Amrita, his consort, the daughter of Gorami, in renewing 

 the likeness. . . ," 



A brief inscription on the base of a pillar, from Mathura like the pre- 

 ceding, contains the name of the ancestral Tsumaki. 



No. 4. Tsumaki inito Tsutaka Saka ga milo tstiyoshi yaku maki j fu 

 Buda hiromeku ^' 



The translation is : " King Tsumaki, the mighty king of the Tsutaka 

 Saka, 160 Buddha proclaims." 



But General Cunningham's version is : " In the Samvat year 47, in 

 Grishma (the hot season), the 3rd month, the 5th day. On that date the 

 gift of the mendicant Dharma Deva." ^** 



The oldest inscription I have yet translated is : 

 No. 5. / maki ^ ma Buda go Kafutake tori Kita ; 



■which, being translated, is: "140 after Buddha, the Kita choose 

 Kafutake." i" 



Professor Dowson reads it : " Presented pillar 126 in the Samvat year 

 47, in Varsha (the rainy season), the 4th month, the i ith day." ^" 



Final!}', the following document appears inscribed in a circle surround- 

 ing the base of a pillar taken from the Jail Mound at Mathura, whence 

 also came the inscriptions of Tsumaki and Kafutake. It is the clearest 

 and most perfect of all the inscriptions read. It commences at the left 

 hand side, at the break or open space near the bottom, and proceeds 

 upwards and so round the pillar. 



No. 6. Bikrama goku agameke Matori fit arukiimeku yobutata yodatsute 

 ashikaze katsii daman Tsutaka Saki Afumi tsutome tatsure 

 tami ki tsuneha renha, tsuneha fumi ^ ki 4. fu Buda go -^ 



Translation: " Vicram, the valiant, ruling the exalted city Mathura, 

 summoned serviceable foot-soldiers to exterminate the Tsutaka Saki. 



