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of yore from similar acts should be remembered, and those who come here- 

 after should uphold them— (?). The holy Vyas has the following two 

 verses to this effect : — 



" He who bestoweth land on brahmans shall enjoy 60000 years' hap- 

 piness in heaven j and he who resumeth it shall abide an equal term in 

 hell. If he take away either by himself or by others, his sin is equal to 

 that of the slaughter of a hundred thousand cows." 



Inscription No. 6, of the Asiatic Society's Museum. 



I have inserted this inscription in my series because it possesses an 

 exact date, and because the original was not given in facsimile by 

 Mr. Colebrooke when he transcribed its contents in his notice of va- 

 rious inscriptions in the ninth vol. of the Researches, page 433. There 

 are, moreover, several letters misread in that copy from an imperfect 

 acquaintance with the changes they have undergone in the course of 

 ages : of these the bh is the most prominent, being taken from ans*. 

 The Sarndth inscriptions of the same century have taught us its real 

 value. 



Still with these emendations the context hardly bears complete 

 explanation, though the general object is clear. It states that in 

 Samvat 1093 (A. D. 1035) on the 1st of the light half of Asdrh, the 

 paramount sovereign Yaso Pala of Kate at the village of Payahdsa 

 in the kingdom of Kausambhi (or Delhi) issues commands to the prin- 

 cipal persons. . . . The following is the transcript as recompared with 

 the original on the stone. 



H^^*Tif^f?r ^wTW^TtawnKfasrsi vn^sra Trei^sns? warn* 

 ^T^fe^^aj^Tf^R *rcii^irw*nmffr ^t^t n^Tm siw&i 



•^RT<s>f* ^ 



Inscriptions from Chunar. 



The two fragments inserted in Plates XXXI. and XXXIII. were 

 presented by Capt. Cunningham, along with the stone in more per- 

 fect preservation published in a former plate. All that can be said of 

 either is, that as the name of Swa'mi-ra'ja appears on one, they pro- 

 bably relate to similar objects described by the larger one, viz. the 

 repairs of public buildings in the fort of Chunar. 



The Buddha gaya inscription of Plate XXXIII. was alluded to in my 

 last notice. 



* The * of this character enabled me to read some Ceylon coins of the same 

 century. 



