62 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVITI, 
Remarks. 
I have retained almost wholesale the reading of Professor 
With regard to the former, i.e. Tranivadrena, I have to point 
out that at the bottom of the fourth letter dra, on the right- 
hand side, there is a short stroke which may be easily read as 
the subscript r on a comparison with the same in the conjunct 
group tra in |. = Regarding the first letter of 1. 4, which I 
tentatively put as gu I have some doubts. Because it has a 
cumbrous hae: ‘nite that of any Kharosthi letter so far 
known. 1 suggest however that, this might perhaps be due 
partly to the unsmooth surface of the stone and partly to the 
carelessness of the scribe, and that the original letter might be 
restored as gu so as to yield the Saga gurave in company with 
the two letters that follow. 1am aware that the fourthcase 
ending is generally substituted by eis sixth case in Literary 
as well as Inscriptional Prakrit. But Sanskriticism even in 
case endings is not unknown. This somewhat rare use of the 
dative may not therefore be considered as altogether impossible. ! 

Translation. 
“On the 20th day of the enol = akan eg MOOS se sg 
year 40. On this day, in the tow . n sunk a 
well by Tranivadra..... (which is) a er : tue Beet ses 
(2) 
Notes. 
Ihave rendered danamukha simply as ‘gift’ after M. Senart 
who was the first to show that it is only a synonym for 
dana. i interpretation has been further strengthened 
by the luminous notes of Dr. Thomas in J.R.A.S., 1915, 
Pp. 97-99. But there are other scholars, who translate the 
ord as ‘ an excellent gift *, no doubt on the assumption that 
debits Sk. dainamukhya. In addition to what Dr. Thomas 
has already shown I here invite attention to certain Jataka 
passages which actually contain the word danamukha. In all 
these pene as will be seen, it can have no other sense possible 
than ‘ gift.’ In the Atthasaddaj ataka® the Bodhisattva is said 
to have been born in a rich et aoe family of Benares; he 
received his education at Taxila and after his parents had died 


oes an article contributed to the Sir Asutosh Silver Jubilee 
Volam s Prof. 8S. N. Majumdar proves the existence of the dative plural 
in ‘ epigra hic Pali.’ re the paper is not yet out I cannot refer to his 
te in detail. 
2 See e.g. A.S.R., 1902-3, p. 164; Ep. mig Ack XE, p. 299. 
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