658 Facsimiles of Ancient Inscriptions. [Oct. 



mese facsimile, that this gentleman went beyond his commission, and 

 kindly furnished me with facsimiles of several other inscriptions in 

 the neighbourhood of the ancient temple, all of which, he says, are 

 quite illegible to the learned pandits of Gaya. 



" No. 2, (No. 1 being tbe Burmese inscription) he writes, is on a 

 stone lying near the Mahd Buddha temple." A copy of this, noted by 

 Hamilton as ' an inscription of considerable length,' appears to be 

 deposited in the E. I. C.'s Museum, labelled No. 113, but no further 

 account of it is furnished. It is this inscription which I have litho- 

 graphed in Plate XXX ; but before proceeding to its discussion, it will 

 be better to notice the other items of Mr. Hathorne's dispatch. 



" No. 3 is an inscription on a stone, inserted in the wall of a Brah- 

 man's house erected on the site of the old fort, said to have belonged 

 to Raja Ami'r Sinh, who went over to the Burman empire, became 

 converted to the Bauddha faith, and died in that country." This is 

 evidently the inscription translated by Wxlkins ; the Raja Ami'r 

 being the Amara above mentioned, : and the story of his conversion 

 has merely been altered a little in repetition, and mixed up with the 

 more recent collisions between the Burmese defendants of the shrine 

 and the Rajput expeditions against these infidels in the 12th and 13th 

 centuries. Perhaps the similarity of the name to the celebrated Ha- 

 mi'ra Sinh of Chitor may have helped to confound the tradition. It 

 is unnecessary to republish this inscription. 



" No. 4 is inscribed in a circular form over an image of Devi in the 

 Mahant's garden." This, again, is alluded to by Dr. Hamilton as 

 No. 99 of the India House museum, " on a male figure now called 

 Saraswati (a goddess), is the usual pious sentence of the Buddhist." 

 It is useless to lithograph this inscription, which does not differ even 

 in the form of the letters from the " Ye dharma hetu, &c." of the 

 Sdrndth and Tirhut images. 



" No. 5 is a word engraved on a pillar which now forms one of the 

 stanchions to an upper story in the convent. The character you will 

 observe assimilates to the ancient inscriptions." This I have found 

 room to insert in Plate XXXIII., but it is impossible to make any 

 thing of it : perhaps it formed part of a longer inscription in the 

 oldest lath character. 



No. 2, then, is the only one of the series which requires further 

 observation. From my acquired experience in such matters, there 

 was little difficulty in transcribing the whole from the facsimile (li- 

 thographed on a reduced scale in Plate XXX.) into the modern Nagarf, 

 nor in preparing a translation with the assistance of the Society's 

 pandit, and of Ratna Paula, whose acquaintance with the Buddhist 



