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accurately, but the inscriptions themselves will, I trust, soon be pub- 

 lished in our Journal from the originals which the Lieutenant-Go- 

 vernor has kindly placed at the disposal of the Society, and which 

 the East India Railway Company have liberally agreed to convey 

 to Calcutta. 



I do not therefore propose now to describe them at length, and 

 merely say that an inscription on one of the pillars declares the 

 building to have been a " Vihar of the great king of kings Huvish- 

 ka," whose name occurs in the well known Bactro-Pali inscription 

 found at " War dak" in Affghanistan. Colonel Cunningham was the 

 first to point out that there can be little danger in identifying this 

 Huvishka with the Hushka of the Scythian kings mentioned in the 

 Raja Tarangini, in the same manner as the "Kanishka" of the 

 same authority and of the early traditions handed down to us from 

 other sources, has been identified with the Kanishka of at least one 

 Bactro-Pali inscription, that of Manikyala. The two kings are too 

 almost be3 r ond doubt the Kanerki and Ooerki of the Indo-Scythian 

 coins. 



Several of the Muttra inscriptions, including that which mentions 

 Huvishka, are dated in ciphers, and it is curious that apparently the 

 same class of ciphers is used as in the Bactro-Pali inscriptions which 

 read from right to left ; throughout the inscriptions from Muttra are 

 all in the Indo-Pali characters which read from left to right. 



Unfortunately we are as yet unable either to assign any value to 

 these ciphers, or to be sure of the era to which the dates refer. The 

 present discoveries, however, afford data'which it is to be hoped may 

 render the solution of the enigma more easy. 



Two of the inscriptions record the titles, and one also the date of 

 another king whose name, however, is unfortunately imperfect, and 

 which we can at present only say began with the word "Vasu," it 

 may have been Vasu Deva, Vasu Mitra, or some other similar com- 

 pound. 



Some names of places are also mentioned as Udiyana, possibly the 

 modern Hurriana. 



These results, however, and I hope others, will be given at length 

 in the Journal on the arrival of the inscriptions themselves, which 

 I trust may be at no distant date. 



I can only say that I hope some remaining portion of the mound 



