240 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (July, 1909, 
(2) The last word in the second line is Aryakaka maghasti- 
sya. The correct name was probably Kaka-Maghahasti or Kaka- 
manguhasti.! 
3) In the third line the name of the Atapika is Gahabaya and 
so cannot be the same as Grahabala. 
4) The fifth word in the third line is Catuvanisya, but this 
gives no sense. Perhaps it was meant to be Caturvarnasya 
(5) The first word in the fourth line is yath@, and the last but 
one.athikaye. The letter az is curious. It is the letter e with 
the downward stroke which usually used for w. Later on in 
Baudha-ghosa Baw is spelt with ~ (a straight downward stroke 
below) and a az (two curved strokes to the right on the top). 
Gauridasasya is similarly spelt in the seals recently discovered by 
Dr. Bloch at Basarh,? 
TRANSLATION, 
This translation is, I believe, the only possible one though it 
makes us assume the existence of many whya words. At first I 
thought that Rara.was a misspelt form of Radha, a province of 
Bengal. But the arguments of Mahamahopadhyaya Hara Prasad 
Shastri, whom I consulted on this point, leave no doubt about the 
fact that the name Radha was not in use up to the 5th century of 
the Christian era. In the third line catuvanisya is evidently the 
mason’s mistake for caturvarnasya. The form aihikaye has no- 
where been met with among contemporary inscriptions. 
_ 1V.—Inscription on a stone ladder (?) (M.9). Dr. Mitra read 
this inscription as follows :— 
Qe HAGE TTA fume qaree ... THAT... 
aeq SeaaT... 1° 
Dowson read this :— 
Samvatsara..... divase 10 asya purvaye dinam bhiksusya 
Buddha-sarvvasa.. . + sit 7 sie 
Prof. Liiders 5 reads :— 
th) SO oe; di 
™m iva 
(2) se 10 asya pfirvyaye danam bhiksusya Buddhanandi (s) 
Th... 
; See Epig Indica, Vol. i, p.391, no xxi, for this name Maghahasti. 
Annual Report of the Archeological Survey of India, 1903-4, p. 114, 
pl. xli, no 28, 
8 J.A.8.B., Vol. xxxix, pt. i, p. 129, pl. vi, no. xiv 
4 J.R.A.S. (n.s.), Vol. v, p. ‘183, no. 3. 
5 Ind. Ant., Vol. xxxiii, p. 150, no. 26. 
