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in the. Society’ S possession. 
39. A Kharosti Copperplate Inscription from Taxila or. 
Taksasila. 
By Mawimanopapyyayd Haraprasdp Sasrri, M.A. 
The discovery of this copperplate, which is 8} inches in 
length, was announced, for the first time, by Sir Alexander Cunning- 
ham in the second volume of the Reports of the Archeological 
Survey. It was discovered inside asmall stiipa at a village named | 
Shah- Dheri in the Rawalpindi District, and is situated at a dis- 
tance of five or six miles from the modern Railway Station Sarai- 
Kala on the N.-W. Railway. The ruins of Shah-Dheri have been 
discussed at various times by several scholars, and there seems | 
to be good reason for identifying it with the ancient and re-_ 
nowned Taksasila. T'wo inscriptions found in the ruins of Shah-_ 
Dheri contain the word - “ Takhasilae or Takhagilaye ” meaning 
in Takgasila. . There are ;— 
in the Lahore Central Museum, and the inscription has recent— 
ly been srpnblished by Dr. Liiders of Rostock. # 
of these records were found in “ site, there. seems — : 
be no ater: ‘to object to the identification of the site of Tak $a- 
sila with modern Shah- Dheri. Cunningham - describes it’ as 
follows :— ; 
:. All of these fourteen topes were opened some years ago “by 
the villagers, from whom [ ascertained that No. 13 yielded an- 
inscribed stone vase and No. 14 a copperplate inscription in three 
or four pieces, which was given to Major Pearse eight years ago, _ 
or about A.D. 1855. The copperplate inscription, which is still- 
in ‘the eee of Major Pearse, is a short rec ecord of one line i in 
wt 
tavito Mata pita puyaé aghara ca puyayé,” a and traniletes eer 
unningham’s facsimile shows that the co tea poe 
consisted of four ur pieces, but. only three a ese are ae Posen, 



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~ 2 Epigraphia Indica, Vol: VIII. a echt Ee Seren Mair SE A) 
es 3 A.S.R. Vol. IL. » Pp- 124-25, mistidga stoeresoag ae 
3 1 oe : a baa iwsish OS 
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