66 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
It is incised on a slab of stone and measures 1’43" x 7". 
The size of the letters is between 3” and 1’. The characters 
are Kharosthi of the Saka variety. The sa in putrasa (l. 2) is 
archaic as in the inscriptions on the Mathura loh’ Capital ; 
the mu in danamukho (1. 1) is not of the cursive type as found 
in Saka and Kusana siete pina and further the letter ka 
has not that curvature in the he ad which is so characteristic 
of later epigraphs. The most interesting however is the 
conjunct letter #4! in samvatsaraye which was read ts by M. 
Senart?. Its resemblance to the Central Asian ts is clear 
enough and here the two distinct letter-forms ¢ and § can be 
easily detected in the body of the ligature. The ligature és 
also does occur in North-Western Kharosthi documents. Thus 
in 1. 1 of the Paja inscription of the year 111 the compound 
letter #s occurs, and not #é as supposed by Professor Konow ®; 
and in this conjunct group the letter sa is _very very promi- 

nent. The language is a form of Pra 
ing point to note is that the sas cingular is denoted by 
o in danamukho in |. 1 and bhuo in I. 3. In bhuo we have an 
instance of the elision of ta. For “aibatien elisions of the letter 
see Professor Liiders’ remarks, J.R.A.S., 1909, p. 664, n. 2. 
Text. 
1 danamukho [1*] 
2 Makadaka-putrasa Vayirajsa* | 
3 [ thuvo ] samvatsaraye 1 100 1 1 bhuo. 
Remarks. : 
For the reading of » in danamukho see Professor Konow 
(Ep. Ind., Vol. XIV, p. 131). In]. 3, the first two letters were 
left unread by M. Senart. But I see clear traces of tha and va 
here on the impression, though I am not certain that the 
restoration thuvo is beyond all doubt. scimiat the aero 
t$ I have already discussed above. The last word bhuo 
ie. bhitah, was read as bhuho by M. Senart, who restored it as 
bhi [ti] ho [tu]. For o ef. Thomas, Ep. Ind., Vol. IX, Table 
opposite p. 146. 
Translation. 
“ Gift. The stupa (0f) Vayira, son of Makadaka has been 
finished in the year 102.” 
Notes. 
Makadaka and Vayira sound like foreign names. For 
Vayira cf. Vayula in a Pathyar Kharosthi inscription—Ep. 

N. G. Majumdar, ‘‘ The Siie Vihar pps eek ee anes 
Silver ubilce Volumes, Orientalia Sect., Part I, pp. 467- 
2 See Liiders, Sitz. Kén. Preus 3. AK. d. Wi iss., 1912, D. 825. 
3 Ep. Ind., Vol. XIV, ¥ 1385 “of ‘PL, Ind. Ant., 1908, p. 65. 

