1836.] Facsimiles of ancient Inscriptions. 485 



The head has its hair gathered in a knot after the fashion of the 

 Hindu devotees, and it is bound together by a triple-headed snake of 

 the cobra species — an ornament not uncommon to Jain figures, but 

 rarely seen in the simple head of Buddha. The ears seem to be 

 lengthened and split, in the style of the Kdnphati sect ; but the draw- 

 ing may also be viewed as of earrings in ears of the natural dimen- 

 sions. 



PI. XXIX. — Inscriptions on Kemaon Tridents. 



On the right hand side of Plate XXIX. is depicted the bronze 

 trident at Barahdt in Garhwdl, reduced from the large native drawing 

 presented to the Society by Mr. Commissioner Traill, last winter. 

 The inscription on the shaft was published as No. 2 of Plate IX. with 

 a translation and explanation by our Vice-President, Dr. Mill. The 

 copper letters being in relief from the shaft were taken off in facsimile. 



The same plan, Mr. Traill says, did not answer with the trident 

 at Gopesvara, although the ancient letters on its shaft are soldered 

 on in the same manner. — The copy taken by the eye of a native 

 draughtsman is unfortunately too incorrect to be legible : but the form 

 of many of the letters shews clearly that this inscription is of the same 

 age as that of Barahdt. 



On the upper part of the trident are three or four short inscriptions 

 in the modern Deva-nagari. These, Mr. Traill says, are cut into the 

 metal. Three of them are illegible, or rather appear to be in some 

 other language. One only is in Sanscrit ; but in this also several 

 errors have been committed by the transcriber. With the assistance 

 of the Society's pandit I am able to present it in a complete form : — 

 it contains a name — the grand desideratum in such cases ; though too 

 often, as in the present instance, it turns out to be a name unknown to 

 fame ! The verse is in the accustomed Sdrddla Vikridita measure, so 

 often mentioned by Dr. Mill. It opens with the invocation Aum 

 Svasti. 



*te^Nr* *rare^fVr^w»rrat5r3T5! n 



" The illustrious Prince Anik Mall, having extended his conquests 

 on all sides, brought together (quere, humbled or made low) upon this 



* The proper grammatical reading would be ^ t ^rf afoy 



