Lieut.-Colonel Tov’s Comparison of the Hindu and Theban Hercules. 159 
to the ancient characters of other nations. Although I have elsewhere 
mentioned the circumstance, I may here repeat it, that I discovered this 
singular rock in the year 1823, in a journey through Saurashtra and Cutch, 
en route to the Indus. The rock is a small insulated mass of compact slate, 
without a single fissure or rent, forming a hemisphere of about thirty 
feet diameter, and is nearly covered with inscription. It is not far from the 
gorge of the mountains by which egress is obtained to the hill of Girnar, 
one of the five sacred mounts of the Budhists or Jains, and the cradle of 
that faith in India. To them these characters appertain, and will be found 
in all their early haunts. The Pandu caves are near this rock, and contain 
a few of the characters. 
Characters of the Girnar Rock-Inscription : 
clipe pa ae hea 
10. 1 ee be 
yy orcs ae all i a 
Yz 
