1837.] 



Inscriptions from Sanchi near Bhilsa. 



451 



On returning from Pekin the mission marched by land that portion of 

 the journey between Tshan-'taik and Tsein-shuon, which they had be~ 

 fore gone by water. 



Date. 



17th April, 

 1824. 



18th 



19th 



20th 



21st 



22nd 



23rd 



26th 



27th 



28th 



29th. 



30th 



1st May, 

 2nd. .... 



3rd. .. . 

 4th 



Names of places. 



Left city of Tshan-taik-fu, and stop 

 ped at the eight villages of Thuotir 

 tauk-sh&n, 



Village of Shen-kyd-yi, 



Village of Tseng-teng-yi, 



Village of Kaik-teng-yi, 



Village of Mi-teng-yi, 



City of Shyeng-tso-fu, 



Village of Tshuon-khyi-yi, where the 

 mission stopped two days, 



Village of Tshan-ibn-yi, 



Village of Haik-yuon-yi, 



Village of Koun-byeng-nheng, 



City of Yuon-tso-fu, 



Village of Pyan-yue, 



City of Kuon-chow, 



Outside of a village in the jurisdic- 

 tion of Sheng-ylt-kue, ... 



Village of Tsheng-khye-hien, 



City of Tsein-shuon-fti, 



to 

 a 



H 



Remarks. 



Travelled in 16 days, 107 Burmese Taings. 



[To he continued.] 



II. — Note on the Facsimiles of Inscriptions from Sanchi near Bhilsa, 

 taken for the Society by Captain Ed. Smith, Engineers ; and on the 

 drawings of the Buddhist monument presented by Captain W. Murray, 

 at the meeting of the 7th June. By James Prinsep, Sec. As. Soc. 



All that I expressed a hope to see accomplished, when publishing 

 my former note* on the Bauddha monument of Sanchi, has at length 

 been done, and done in a most complete and satisfactory manner. We 

 have before the Society a revision of the inscription with which we 

 were but tantalized by Mr. Hodgson's native transcript : — a collection 

 of the other scattered inscriptions alluded to by Captain Fell ; — and 

 pictorial illustrations of the monument itself and of its highly curious 

 architectural details. Let us now take a hasty glance at the results, 

 and see whether they have justified the earnestness of my appeal, and 

 the punctuality, care and talent in responding to it displayed by Cap- 

 tains E. Smith and W. Murray. 



The chief inscription is restored by Captain Smith's facsimiles so 

 perfectly that every word can be read except where the stone is ac- 



* Journal Asiatic Society, vol. III. p. 488. 



