342 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
claim any royal titles’ it is ‘extremely improbable’ that the 
vear 13 refers to his reign.' Sridharavarmman, however, has 
the title ‘ Mahadandanayaka’ which need not be looked upon 
as indicating his subordinate rank, as will be shown further in 
the sequel. 
(3) In line 6, immediately after the verse, Mr. Banerji 
recognises a date symbol which he reads as 200. He refers it 
to the Saka era and thus arrives at 279 a D. which he takes 
to be the date of the inscription (op. cit., p. 231). First of all, 
the symbol has no resemblance with a 200 figure (see Biihler’s 
Tables). Secondly, it would be well nigh impossible to hold 
that a date sy mbol should abruptly follow a verse ‘ without 
an explanatory word’ like varsa, samvatsara, etc. Both the 
difficulties seem to have occurred to Mr Banerji. As regards 
been modified in the inscription as a scribe has written it 
‘at one stroke of the pen. But do not consider that 
the grounds adduced by Mr. eer in support of the read- 
ing are sufficient. The only alternative remains, therefore, 
sign there occurs a letter sa which is followed by apparently 
three numerical symbols. If there is any date in the recor 
it is here that we should look for it. The first symbol is not 
I tentatively read the first symbol as 200. The letter sa (sam) 
immediately preceding it stands probably for samvatsara. 
the reading 241 is justifiable, it should in all likelihood be 
assigned to the Saka era. Thus we arrive at the year 319 A.D. 
as the date of the inscription. I am, of course, not prepared 
to go so far as to say that my reading of the date is certain, 
although I cones it to be a far more probable reading than 
that of Mr. Bar 
The record ecnein an interesting ethnological inference, 
namely, that the Saka settlers in India were, in course of time, 
thoroughly Hinduised and even adopted names quite in the 
indu style* Thus Nanda and Sridhara-varmman® are 
good Hindu names. The latter again appears to be a devout 
worshipper of Bhagavat Mahasena (Karttikeya) like the Early 
Kadambas (see Kielhorn, £J., Vol. VIII, p. 35 and n. 5), and 


See above my note on the absence of royal titles. Mr. Banerji 
srs eg that according to his reading Jivadaman also will have no titles, 
myals 
2D. R. Bhandarkar, « Foreign Elements in Hindu Population,” Ind. 
Ant., 1911, pp. 13-15 
. the a Agnivarman, a Saka—Nasik cave inscr., No. 15, E/., 
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