1836.] Facsimiles of Ancient Inscriptions. 657 



It is a great pity that the horde discovered at Korinder was not 

 secured at once. It might have contributed very materially to our 

 classification of this second Canouj dynasty. A great many specimens 

 of the same sort must also be scattered about in the cabinets of retired 

 Indians at home ; and we may hope now that Professor Wilson has 

 commenced upon the task of examining the coins in the Royal Asiatic 

 Society and India House collections, specimens will flow in to him 

 from all quarters to be decyphered and described. 



V. — Facsimiles of various Ancient Inscriptions, lithographed by James 

 Prinsep, Secretary As. Soc. fyc. 

 [Continued from page 561.] 

 Inscriptions from Buddha- Gay a, Plate XXX. 



The neighbourhood of Gaya has long been known to be prolific of 

 inscriptions : — yet, notwithstanding the various notices of them which 

 have appeared in the Researches, of the Bengal, and of the London So- 

 cieties, the theme is, as yet, by no means exhausted. Mr. Harington 

 furnished our Society at a very early period after its institution w'.th 

 copies of two inscriptions from the principal cave, lying in the hiP of 

 Nagarjuna, (the name, it will be remembered, of a celebrated Buddhist 

 patriarch,) one of which was decyphered by Dr. Wilkins, and proved 

 to be a record of the excavation of the cave by Ananta Varma, the 

 grandson ofYAGNA Varma. The date is not given, but the character 

 (No. 2 of the Allahabad hith) shews it to belong to an early cen- 

 tury of the Christian era. Mr. Harington mentions several other 

 caves and inscriptions which have not yet been examined. 



Dr. Wilkins also translated one inscription copied from a stone 

 by Mr. Wilmot in 1785, (As. Res. vol. i. 284,) dated Samvat 1005, 

 purporting that Amara Deva, the author of the Amera kosha, built 

 the temple of Buddha at Buddha- gay a. 



Dr. Hamilton (Roy. As. Soc. Trans, vol. ii. 44,) in his account of 

 the ruins of Buddha Gaya, alludes cursorily to inscriptions on two 

 images of Gautama, recording their erection, one by Jaya Sen and 

 Kuma'ra Sen, sons of Punyabhadra, son of Samanta, all untitled 

 persons : the other by Raja Vijyabhadra, of whom nothing more is 

 known. 



The Burmese inscription found by the Embassy in 1831, was of a 

 more interesting description. It is described in the Journal (vol. iii, 

 page 214), and more fully by Colonel Burney in the last volume of 

 the Researches. It was upon the occasion of my requesting Mr. 

 Hathorne, then magistrate of Gaya, to take a duplicate of the Bur- 

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