6. Notes on Kharosthi Inscriptions. 
By N. G. Magumpar, M.A. 
(Plates III-V),. 
1. Shakardarra Inscription of the year 40. 
This inseription comes from a place called Shakardarra 
near Campbellpur on the North-Western Frontier, where it 
was discovered in an ‘ old well’.! It was first brought to notice- 
in 1908 by Mr. R. D. Banerji who published it in Indian Anti- 
quary, Vol. XXXVITI, p. 66 and plate. In 1916, Professor 
Sten Konow utilised the record in his le arned paper on the 
Indo-Scythians,* where incidentally in a footnote he gave his 
own reading and translation of the inscription, which are, it is 
worthy of notice, materially different from those of Mr. Banerji. 
I now edit it from two excellent ink ts gee kindly placed 
at my disposal by Professor Bhanda 
The inscription is now in he Lahore Museum. It is 
incised on a stone slab and measures 10” x 74”. The size of the 
letters is between 2” and 3”. It consists of 4 lines and is slightly 
damaged at the right end. 
‘The characters are Kharosthi of the Kusana period as 
portrayed by Buhler in_ cols. X-XII of his Tafel I.—The 
language is a form of Prakrit, but it does not contain, as 
Mr. apa wrongly thinks, ‘a strong mixture of some foreign. 
ialect o far I can see, it does not possess any foreign 
aleaeits 2 all being the same as the Gandharian rakrit, so 
familiar to us from other Kharosthi documents. The follow- 
ing Sintec tsrbtibe may be noted: The, is retained in grou 
in all words except Pothavadasa (1. 1). The nominative 
donno (l. 4). In nekame (1. 3), we have a hardening of 
( There is only one case of assimilation, viz. of sth into 
th in "Pothaiwaee (1. 1) —In respect of Orthography, the only 
interesting point to note is <v substitution of the lingual n 
for dental m in danamukho (1. 4 
I read the epigraph as follows :— 
Text. 
j Sam 20 20 Pothavadasa masasa ys [e]. 
2 visami di 20 [|*] Atra divasa-kale Sa. 
3 nikame kovo khadao +ranivadrens sam.. 
4 [gu ?]rave danamukho. * 
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his well must be the one mentioned ir in 1 the inscripticn. 
A.W., 1916, p. 
95, n. 
ter this there are engraved a deer and a fruit. 
