118 Remarks upon the second Inscription [March, 



As one mode of aiding the investigation of the powers of the un- 

 known alphabet, supposing the language expressed to be Sanscrit, I 

 had the letters in a page of the Bhatti Kdvya classified and counted, to 

 compare with the enumeration in Plate VI. They were as follows : 



7T 



93 times 



*T 



33 times 



■sr 



9 times 



*T 



3 times 



S 



times 



V 



57 



T 



30 



T 



9 



T 



3 



* 







"5T 



51 



^ 



25 



^ 



6 



^ 



2 



? 







* 



51 



'ST 



22 



^ 



6 



^ 



2 



^g" 







3f 



45 



•q 



15 



*T 



5 



13 



1 



W 







^ 



44 



^ 



14 



V 



9 



<?> 



1 



^ 







^ 



43 



3i 



12 



W 



5 



^ 



1 



^T 







*? 41 vf 11 ST 3 ^ 1 



I also made the same classification of one page of the Feroz lath 

 inscription, which I found to agree pretty well with the table prepared 

 from that of Allahabad. There is one marked difference, which may be 

 due perhaps to the copyist : — I allude to the separation of the words in 

 the former, which does not appear to be the case in Lieut. Burt's tran- 

 script. 



It would require an accurate acquaintance with many of the learned 

 languages of the East, as well as perfect leisure and abstraction from 

 other pursuits, to engage upon the recovery of this lost language ; but 

 when its simplicity of vocables is compared with the difficulties of the 

 Persepolitan, or cuneiform character, lately deciphered by Grote- 

 fend and St. Martin, or the more abstruse hieroglyphics of Egypt at- 

 tempted by Young andCHAMPOLLiON, it seems almost a stigma on the 

 learned of our own country that this should have remained so long an 

 enigma to scholars ; and the object of the present notice is to invite fresh 

 attention to the subject, lest the indefatigable students of Bonn or 

 Berlin should run away with the honor of first making it known to the 

 learned world. 



III. — Remarks upon the second Inscription of the Allahabad Pillar. By 

 Captain A. Troyer, A. D. C. Sec. Sanscrit College, fyc. 

 [Read at the Meeting of the 20th March.] 

 An alphabet of the inscription No. 2, copied from the Allahabad 

 pillar, compared with the Deva-nagari, was compiled by Madhava Rao, 

 the head Librarian of the Sanscrit College. It will be seen from the 

 annexed copy of it, (Plate VI.) that eight of the consonants, namely, 

 *T (g'h), w (j'h), ST (n), S (t'),V (t'h), ^ (d'), ^ (d'h,) and three of the 

 vowels T T ^ 0> h u,) could not be found. 



