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to follow the wrong path among the net- work of scratches. With- 

 out the facsimiles themselves to pore over, it would have heen im- 

 possible to have conquered the various difficulties presented by this 

 I'ude inscription, and even with it the Society's pandit, Rama Govinda, 

 deserves great praise for the plausible version he has enabled me to give 

 of it : for I have recompared his modifications with the original, and 

 find in almost every instance that they are borne out by the facsimile. 

 It is unnecessary to re-lithograph the document, as all those who will 

 take the trouble of comparing the two will see in what way my pen 

 has deviated from the correct trace, and it will serve as a good tesjr 

 of the superiority of facsimiles to the best copies made under the 

 sole guidance of the eye. 



The following then is Ra'ma Govinda's restoration of the text . 

 like its precursor, it is in prose, and without any invocation : nor has 

 it any deprecation against the hand that should annul the good act 

 recorded ; but this is explained by the trifling nature of the gift, which 

 does not include any grant of land. 



Second inscription at Sanchi, see Plate XXVI. 

 ^THi^cTa!* ^<TO%fa ffrTC^T ^s cr^lCT^J<|j5JTTCTO 



ircrrsfro fe^# few ftT 5 ^ "sr^T^facrer ^r?r?3fTO 

 Wi^npffaT in^rcf^TOT f^^Hi^T-gx: 



^TWc^l 



Translation. 

 " I hereby make known to all the assembled devotees offering up 

 prayers for the father and mother of Hariswamini, the eminent dis- 

 ciple of the wife possessing the dsan-siddh or seat of purity, in the 

 great and holy Vihara of Kakunada sphota (?), that for the prevention 

 of begging in the public roads, an alms-house for the indigent, and 



