1870.] Notes on Sanskrit Inscriptions from Mathurd. 127 



the last word of the first line as S'ravasti, hut it appears to me to he 

 very unlike it. After a very careful study of the- original for some 

 hours, I make it out to he hhihshusya, the last two letters correspond- 

 ing, with the sadya of the next line. The figure is 7 feet high, and is cut 

 in the same material (red sandstone) of which theMathura sculptures 

 are formed. It was dedicated hy two Buddhist mendicants, Mihira 

 and Tripitaka, with funds received for the good of mankind from 

 one Bakrateya. The grammatical connection of the third line with 

 the second is not ohvious, and the meaning had therefore to he 

 guessed from the instrumental case of the phrase Bakrateya 

 sucharyma. 



Transcripts and Translations of the Mathurd Inscriptions. 



Plate IV. No. i. — Eound the base of a Pillar (deposited in the 

 Museum of the Asiatic Society.) 



A present, on the 40th day of the year 59, to the Vihara of the 

 great king, the king of kings, the divinely horn (or the son of a 

 Deva) Huvishka, hy the mendicant (Bhikshu) Jivaka Udiyanaka, 

 known hy the name of the breath-suspended. * May it prove a 

 blessing to all mankind I The fourteenth congregation. 



Plate TV. No. n. — Pound the base of a Pillar (deposited in the 

 Museum of the Asiatic Society.) — 



The gift of Devili of the race of Daclhikurna Devi, on the 80th 

 day of the year 59. 



Plate V. No. in. — Pound the base of a Pillar (deposited in the 

 Museum of the Asiatic Society.) — 



■^pf fa w *jw^tw *rafafre ^fV w^T^f^^r ^t ^t -f- fq% *t 



The gift of the mendicant (Bhikshu) Buddka-dasa Sangha- 



* The words in the original are Kubhaha sana, which I take to be a corrup- 

 tion of Kumbhalca-saujna from Kumbhaka, suspension of breath in religious 

 meditation, and sunjud a name. 



f The rending of the figure is doubtful. 



J The reading of the lust word is conjectural. 



