346 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
word is rather abnormal and might have been due to the 
similarity in pronunciation between the two sibilants in the 
dialect of N.W. India. The dental 7 is used throughout. 
Texe* 
Saghe cadudige* UraSa-raje acaryana na* Kagyaviana 
Sagharachiltasa] dana. 
TRANSLATION. 
‘‘ The gift of Samgharaksita to the Kasyapiya preceptors, 
at the Buddhist Community of the Four Quarters, in the 
kingdom of Urasa.’ 
The mention of Urasa-rajya,ie., ‘ kingdom of Urasa’ 
is important. According to Sir Aurel Stein Uraga is “ the 
ancient designation of the hill-region which lies between 
the upper course of the Vitasta and the Indus. Its 
greatest part is now comprised in the British District of 
Hazara.” * “Its capital,’ says the same authority, “ lay a 
short distance to the north-east of Abbottabad, in ‘the 
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this day bears the name of Urash or Rash.’’® The fact 
that the inscription comes from Hazara gives additional 
support to the identification. The only other epigraphic 
document which seems to mention Urasa is probably the 
pela Silver Scroll of the year 136.5 It contains in lines 
the passage U rasakena Imtaphria putrena Bahaliena 
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as a separate entity in the Kusana period deserves 

! Being dependent = a single set of photographs for the ape! 
tion of the record I have not been able to reproduce all letters ach 
particular fgise with the diatiawtoban they show in the piste to rh 
the letters ca-du di, which appear clearly in the original of fig. III, have 
not come out so clear in the reproduction ; the letter ca in acarya 
re occur a few dots after di which do not form part of any 
lattice er might be due to the failure of the artisan in carrying out the 
ie Pe al draft. 
ae letter i is 5 og 
hana’s R@jatarangini, Vol. I, pp. 215-216. Dr. Stein draws 
attention to shes to Urasa in + aaa literature and to the accoun nt 
of Hiuen-Tsang (see Beal, Buddhist Records of the Western World, Vol ay 
147) according to whom it lay to the north-west of Kashmir 
c t For 
Urash or Rash plain see also azara 5 District Doistiesr 1907) p- tis and. 
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. Konow, Sitz. dk Wiss:. 2916, 804, 
and Ep. Ind., Vol. XIV. p. 287; also Thomas, J.R.A.S fold, p. 988. 
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