486 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [September, 1910. 



There are four holes near the four corners ; and whatever 

 the correct interpretation of the inscription may be, there is 

 no doubt about the fact that it was a notice intended to be 

 hung in a prominent place. The plate measures 2f" by If*. 



2. The Sue Vihar inscription of Kaniska. — The inscription 

 was discovered at Sue Vihar which is about sixteen miles from 

 Bahawalpur. It was found imbedded in the floor of a ruined 

 tower of sunbaked bricks. An account of the tower and the 

 surrounding ruins was published by Mr. E. C. Bayley, C.S.L, 

 in the Society's Journal, 1 who gave his version of the inscrip- 

 tion also. It was published by Hoernle in 1881 % and Bhag- 

 wanlal Indraji in I882. 3 It was discovered by the Rev. G. 

 Yeates in 18b9 and forwarded by Major Stubbs to Mr. E. C. 

 Bayley, who is supposed to have presented it to the Society. 4 

 The inscription consists of a single line of Kharosthi incised 

 along the edge of a thin plate of copper. The inscription 

 records the erection of a staff which belonged to a mendicant 

 named Nagadatta, learned in the Samkhya philosophy, the 

 disciple of Damatrata and the disciple of the disciple of Bhava, 

 by an abbess who was the wife 5 of Balanandiandthe mother of 

 Balajaya, on the 28th day of the month of Daisios in the 11th 

 year of Kaniska. This is the only dated Kharosthi record in 

 the collection. 



3. The Taxila plate. — This inscription is incised on a thin 

 strip of copper which was broken into four pieces at the time of 

 its discovery. Of these four only three have been found in the 

 Society's collection. They were discovered inside a small 

 stupaata village named Shah Dheri in the Rawalpindi district. b 

 According to Cunningham these strips of copper were given 

 to Major Pearse in or about 1855. Nobody knows how or when 

 they came into the possession of the Society. The inscription 

 records the erection of a stupa by a certain .... metiakha, an 

 inhabitant of Taba together with his wife, for the wor- 



ship of his father and mother and for the destruction of sin. 

 The total length of these strips is 8" and the mean breadth §V 

 4. The Gorakhpur grant of Jayadityadeva /. — The plate was 

 discovered near the river called the little Gandak in the Gorakhpur 

 district of the United Provinces. It was brought by Mr. John 

 Ahmuty, the then Magistrate of the district, who communicat- 

 ed it to Captain Wilford, by whom it was presented to the 

 Society. The inscription was first edited by H. T. Colebrooke 



,r , l /-A.S.B. 9 Vol. XXXIX, pt. I, pp. 6567 : see also J.R.A.S. (N.S.), 

 Vol. IV, pp. 497-99. 



* Ind. Ant., Vol. X, pp. 324-3 J. 



t {^r VoL XI > PP- * Ind Ant., Vol. X, p. 324. 



w^rr gUsh versiott of Biihler's Indian Palaeography. Ind. Ant.. Vol. 

 XXXIII, App., p. 28. 



* Cunningham, A.S.R., Vol. II, pp. 124-25. 



* Jotirn. and, Pmo J # n v^i i\7 « oco 



