348 Facsimiles of various Ancient Inscriptions. [June, 



sage counsels, and the abandonment of all selfish passions. He who 

 was originally by name Udara-charita, (the man of generous deeds,) 

 being skilled in all holy duties, did even thus at once, as the best of 

 the lords of power, reduce to fragments the army opposed to him, 

 though crushing all other adversaries, chariots and all." 



This is the whole of the second line. The third and last which 

 is in prose begins 'sftw: sftT^T " the beloved son of a beloved father, 



and ends with the words fr&¥ ^T¥^ faVflT 7|T*SKtfifl:" 



^^I^TT^^"^ rT^llW TT^: f^prjT " As long as the sacred mark 

 remains in the body, so long has the glory of these two illustrious 

 ones (father and son) been concealed : but henceforward may the 

 immortality of this king be unshaken !" 



The meaning is not very good, and the word g^Tf: for Illustrious, 

 is unusual, if not semi-barbarous, in its formation ; but I can make 

 nothing better of it, neither can I spell out the father's name from 

 the strange characters of the first line. The second one is the only 

 part on which I have no doubt. W. H. Mill. 



Iskardo Inscription. 



No. 3 of Plate IX. is a copy of the inscription on a granite rock 

 near Iskardo, the capital of Little Tibet, taken by Mr. Vigne, the 

 English traveller, who sent it down through Captain Wade in hopes 

 that M. Csoma de Koros would be able to decypher it. 



Being found under an image of Buddha, it may be concluded that 

 this inscription is but an extract from some of the sacred volumes of 

 his followers ; but it is in too imperfect a state for M. Csoma to be 

 confident of the rendering, although a large portion of the letters 

 may be read with ease and certainty. Their accurate form would 

 pronounce them to have been copied by an artist, if not by one ac- 

 quainted with the Tibetan alphabet. 



Ajunta Inscription. 



No. 4 of Plate IX. This mutilated inscription is from the caves 

 of Ajunta. I am indebted for it to Mr. Ralph and Capt. Gresley, 

 of Aurangabad, who paid a visit to those celebrated excavations last 

 year, and I am not aware that this particular inscription has been 

 yet published. 



Mr. Ralph states that it was found " not in the largest Bauddha cave, 

 but in the first which we inhabited, and the one where a square was 

 formed by four pillars each way. The letters were on the right hand 

 of a doorway of a small apartment leading into one containing the 

 figure of Buddha ; but here he was not represented with the two 

 African statues of attendants, nor is this the cave where the Grecian 

 helmets are found. The rough sketched countenances which are plac- 



