22. Mathura Inscriptions in the Indian Museum. 
By Raxuat Das BanpyopApuyAya. 
Most of the sculptures on which these inscriptions have 
been found were presented to this Society, forty-five years ago, by 
the Hon’ble G. F. Edmonstone, the then Lieutenant-Governor of 
the North-Western Provinces. Thirty-six years have elapsed. 
since the first ee sae of these inscriptions by Dr. Mitra and 
Prof. Dowson. ince that time fresh discoveries in Mathura, 
and the learned pe by the late Dr. Bihler, have thrown 
remained undisturbed in the Museum. Dr. Liiders has recently 
attempted to decipher them from the rough drawings published 
Dr. Mitra, and Dowson’s rather rude facsimiles. In particular 
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previous workers, but the want of mechanical facsimiles of iss 
inscriptions prevented td from completing his work. 
publishing these inscriptions now in the hope that the ee 
mechanical estampages published sai ii ag enable some other 
wig 3 to fill in the gaps whic m lea 
all there are thirteen bigoted oe oe from Mathura 
in se Indian Museum. Ten out of these are pillar bases and the 
rest are on the pedestals of aaliioe When the Archeological 
Collections of the Indian Museum were re-arranged in 1898, want 
bases to the godowns. They have recently been brought out, 
and I am taking the earliest Sea laren it of placing them in a 
revised form before the Society. In each case I have given the 
readings of previous workers so as to a em etoris mine. 
(1) The Pillar base inscription of the Bhiksu Sivek of 
Udiyana o or Udyana of the year 47. Dowson’ 
n dof A ‘ 
(2) Inscription on a small pedestal. Besides Dowson 4 and 
Mitra,’ Dr. Fleet has published this inscription in the third volume 
of the Corpus.6 Recently Dr. Liiders has once more published 
this inscription. 
1 J.R.A.8. (n.s.), Vol. v, p. 182, no. 1; see ial J.A.S.B., Vol. xxxix, 
pt. i. 127, = 1, and A.S.R., Vol. iy p . 83, n 
ne se ‘i Vol. xxxiii, p. 101 
caer - oe or beak seer of the Archeological Collections 
in the nee! a m, p. 178. ‘ 
J.R is Vol. v vy, p. 187, no. xix. 
5 J.A. $B Valen x, pt: i, pl. v, fig. 
8 Fleet’s Corpus Tnseriptionum Indicarui, Vol. iii, p- 280, pl. xlii B, 
1 Ind. Ant., Vol. xxxiii, p. 105, n 
