346 Facsimiles of various Ancient Inscriptions. [June, 



P.'s TfZWj: TKT% ■^3rri%?'T?T ^^IT^t is altogether gratuitous and 

 irreconcilable with the yet remaining letters of the verse. 



V. The B. P.'s reading of this verse : 



has only the advantage of mine as to the antepenultimate syllable of the first 

 half, viz. the 2nd ^ being somewhat more like what appears on the stone. In 

 every other respect where there is any difference, any one may see how entirely he 

 varies from the characters there visible, beside being incorrect in grammar and 

 prosody, and quite unintelligible. Only three syllables of mine are conjectural, 

 in a place where the stone is broken. 



VI. All of this verse, which is not distinguished by small letters, is most 

 clearly traced on the stone : but the B. P. has retained nothing of it but the 

 three first syllables of the second line, (in which also he has thrust in another 

 syllable with a visarga without warrant) in his reading, which is — 



rl^T ^war *r^ra*TT: info CT^ff^in^: | 

 <TfT: ^«*T ^T ^r*T: rn^RtfrT ^T^W^rTS II 



most entirely gratuitous ! beside that it annexes the first to si. 5, and begins the 



6th with the other. 



VII. VIII. In these two verses, between which there is an interval in a 

 broken part of the stone sufficient to contain a balf-sloka or line, and which 

 may throw some reasonable doubt as to the precise divisions of the slokas or 

 distichs, the B. P., who divides differently from me, has not attempted to retain 

 any thing of the yet remaining large characters on the stone, except in the first 

 line, and the beginning of the last but one ; while any one who compares his 

 reading with mine, will see how much more he varies from his original. His 

 reading is in five lines, as follows : 



*re^P?tf?wf%%: TirsRT-ilt^rar- II [ Here ^TW aMflrrow,ismiss P elt -] 

 <^TJTc9 "^il "^S9 TjJJjn-^^fT: I [No ^^T as on the stone.] 

 SrfafTBT "^ ff "^if ^*Q^ ^ %f*T3T : ! I [A false concord here.] 

 fTW ^4 nTr^iT-f ^nsffT*TT ^qmti: I [All but the first syllables 



quite incompatible with the stone.] 



IX. This the B. P. read quite differently ; but any person comparing his two 

 first lines with mine, may judge which is the nearest to the actual inscription. 

 His third line is altogether gratuitous. 



X. In this sloka, which is in the lyrical measure called S&rdula vikrlditem, 

 the B. P. has made the following very serious mistakes, 1st, making its second 

 pada or hemistich the first, (reading it otherwise quite correctly) to the exclusion 

 of all the legible syllables of the first pada, whose place in the measure is so 

 palpable, viz. the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th or last, which 

 are on the stone clearly as they are here represented in large letters [having 

 gratuitously supplied their place by a 3rd Anustabh line to verse IX. I] 2adly. 



