﻿XXVI. 



THE TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION 

 IN THE MAGA LANGUAGE, 



Engraved on a Silver Plate, found in a Cave 

 near Islamabad. 



COMMUNICATED BY JOHN SHORE, ESQ_. 



ON the 14th of Maglia 904, Chandi Lah Raja*, 

 by the advice of Bowangari Rauli, who was thfe 

 director of his studies and devotions, and in confor- 

 mity to the sentiments of twenty-eight other Raidis, 

 formed the design of establishing a place of religious 

 worship; for w'jch purpose a cave was dug, and 

 paved with bricks, three cubits in depth.,, and three 

 cubits also in diameter ; in which were deposited one 

 hundred and twenty brazen images of small dimen- 

 sions, d. -nominated Tahmudas ; also, twenty brazen 

 images larger than the former, denominated Languda ; 

 there was likewise a large image of stone call Langu* 

 dagari, with a vessel of brass, in which were deposited 

 two of the bones of Thacur. On a silver plate were 

 inscribed the Hauca, or the mandates of the deity; 

 with that also styled Taumah Chucksowna Tahma, to 

 the study of which twenty-eight Raulis devote their 

 time and attention ; who, having celebrated the pre- 

 sent work of devotion with festivals and rejoicings, 

 erected over the cave a place of religious worship for 

 the MagaSy in honour of the deity, 



God sent into the world Buddha Avatar to instruct 

 ^nd direct the steps of angels and of men; of whose 

 birth and origin the following is a relation : — When, 

 JBuddha Avatar descended from the region of souls, in/ 



* Perhaps Sandilyab. 



