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two abeeres which have been obliterated, and finished with 
tea in | 
ne 13. This is the most difficult of all the lines as Babu 
R. D. Banerji has noted. The first two aksaras are more than 
nya vya° as he reads, for the nya has vowel marks above it and 
the vya appears to have a superscript r. The reading must be 
nyair vya°; and nyair is the final syllable of the word which 
has become obliterated at the end of 1. 12, and which is in the 
instrumental case plural agreeing with epee vaharibhih. Still if 
we read nya, it would be com ponies with wyavaharibhih, and 
the meaning would be the sam 
ext comes a difficult word which he reads as samantya, 
but the main portion of the second aksara in it is the same as 
the first, that is s in both cases. The third aksara is either 
tya or nya but has not enough strokes to be ntya. It appears 
to be tya if we compare it with tya at the beginning of line 15 
and the shape of ¢ in tac ca° (1. 16). These inferences combined 
give sasatya. It will be seen from the subsequent remarks on 
the grammatical construction of ll. 13 and 14, that this word 
must be an indeclinable past participle, and the termination 
ya shews that the root must be a compound one. The on 
preposition possible in this word is sam. Now the right limb 
of the first s is continued above the top of the letter into a 
small knob, which appears to represent anusvara ; hence the 
n the 
perpendicular line which suggests that a compound consonant is 
intended, and if so, that can only be sm, and we may conjec- 
ture that the engraver erroneously incised only s instead of sm, 
ana the mistake was corrected afterwards by inserting that 
middle line in order to make the character look as nearly like 
sm as was possible. Further under this sm there seems to be 
a faint trace as of the vowel 7; but, whether that is real or 
samsmrtya. In support of this rendering it may be pointed 
out thai no other indeclinable past participle (as far as I am 
aware) can be suggested wiich will satisfy both the script and 
the se1-e of this passage 
The remainder of this line and the greater part of 1. 14 con- 
tain many difficulties, and the key to unlock them is found in 
the fact that the words between samsmitya (1. 13) and tad 
asmai (|. 14) compose a Sloka. 
He reads the first three aksaras of the Sloka as sa@patt, but 
the last is ta, and the form of ta is seen in paitts (ll. 11, 15 aa 
17). The second is not like any p in this inscription, for it 
has a bar along the whole of its top, whereas the general form 
of p is shown in the next word évapadair. This aksara must, 
it seems, be meant for sa, the middle horizontal bar of which 
has been carelessly blended with the wedge-shaped top and so 
gives the appearance of a continuous though not clean-cut 
