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may, at some future date, be completely explored as well as the 

 many similar mounds existing at Muttra, all of which probably 

 cover, and some of which are known to cover, similar remains. 



From the accounts of Fahian and Houan Tsang who describe 

 twenty monasteries (some as old as Asoka) as standing in their time 

 as well as other buildings, some Buddhist, some Hindu, there can 

 be no doubt of a rich Antiquarian harvest from any properly con- 

 ducted excavations. 



The following extract of a letter from Colonel Cunningham to Mr. 

 Bajdey was also read : — ■ 



" I was glad to receive your letter of the 17th with all its inform- 

 ation ahout coins and inscriptions. 



I duly received Rajendra's translation of the Wardak inscription. 

 I think that he has given the general scope of the inscription, but 

 he has certainly erred in many of the details, as several of his read- 

 ings are quite inadmissible. What does he mean by saying that I 



read the figure as 3 ? I read y 3 3 as 331 ; and now for the 



proof that this is the correct reading and that the date is in the 

 Seleucidan era — I read the opening of the Wardak inscription as 

 "San 331 Attamisiyasa divasa vrehi 14" — "In the year 331, on the 

 fourteenth day of the increase of Artemisias." What do you think of 

 that reading ? Artemisias was the seventh of the Macedonian months, 

 and if the Seleucidan era was in use, we ought to find the names of the 

 Macedonian months also. Now turn to Ariana Antiqua, to the ink 

 inscription from No. 13 Tope at Hidda, which I read 

 San )(xO Mdse Apilaesa vrehi dasami. 



In the year X><<") on the 10th of the increase of the month Apel- 

 lceus." A careful examination of the original might perhaps show 

 Apileyasa as the true reading. The word s'arira (relic) occurs 

 shortly after the date in this inscription. 



Inscription No. 3, Plate IX. of Thomas has the same year X x 

 but I read the remainder of the date doubtfully as 

 " Mdsa Attamisiyasa Vrehi 1." 



I have an impression of this inscription which differs in some let- 

 ters from Thomas's copy. Another inscription of which I possess a 

 copy, given to me by Captain Robinson of the Engineers, opens 

 with a line which I read without much hesitation as follows. 



2 R 



