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5. The Umgé Hill Inscriptions in the District of Gaya 
ParMEsHwaR Dayar. Communicated by the Philological aes 
The Grand Trunk Road which passes through the southern 
parts of the District of Gaya (in Bengal) has long been the most 
pring highway in the district ; and before the construction 
ast Indian Railway, it was the chief route for traffic 
bee wah Calcutta and Delhi. Travellers passing through this high 
road generally meet with beautiful sceneries o mountains covered 
with forest trees, and table-lands intersected by hill torrents rush- 
ing through overgrown jungle. About a mile and a half to the 
west of Madanpur (an important camping ground and Police out- 
t on this road} the scenery towards the south has always 
charmed the travellers and attracted their special attention, A 
1847 a.D., by one Captain Kit Kittoo, 6th Regiment, cae whose notes 
with a translation of the inscription, in Hindi, were published 
in the August and December numbers of the Journal of the 
Asiatic Society for a.p, 1847, Vol. XXXI. In a.p. 1866, it was 
cheer noticed by one Mr. Peppe, whose notes, with a photo of the 
mple, were published in No. 1 of the Journal of the Asiatic 
Sorte for 1866 a.p, I had occasion to see these ruins in 189 
and on receiving information from one Pandit Devadatta 
Mites of Purnadih, a village situated in the vicinity of these hills, 
of the existence of another long inscription in one of the ruins on 
the top of the highest peak, I visited the spot twice. For a few 
the second time, on 5th November, 1901, my labour was crown 
with success, and the stone containing the ing gee sought for, 
was found lying loose in the heaps of the ruins of a temple. Some 
facsimiles of it were taken by me at once, and with the help of the 
said Pandit Devadatta Misra, who had accompanied me on this 
oceasion, it was deciphered immediately. 
This inscription exists on a slab of stone about 22 inches 
long and 15 inches broad and is comprised of 15 lines containing 8 
