140 Remarks on the Taxila Bactro-Pals Inscription. |No. 2, — 
Transliteration. 
Line 1. Samvats'araye athasatatimae, 20, 20, 20, 10, 4, 4, (== 78) 
mahardyasa mahatasa MOGASA, Panemasa mdsasa, divase pan- 
chame, 4, 1, (= 5) etdye purvvdye, Chhaharasa (line 2) Chukhsasa 
cha, Chhatrapasa LIAKO, KUSULUKO nédma, atasa patropati (?) 
** Takhas'ildye nagara utarena pacham des'o Chhema ndma atra (line 
3) s/apatiko aprativadita BHAGAVATA S/aKA-Muntsa 8 ariram patidha- 
rati (7) Sangha Rachite (na) sarvva Budhinam puyae, mata-pitaram 
puya, yuta (line 4) Chhatrapasa saputraddrasa AYU-BAULA-VARDHIKA 
bhrdtara sarvva cha, satiga ** dharasa cha, puya, mahatana (7) pati- 
patikasa *** —(line 5) Rohini gatrena ya imati Sanghdrdma Kamika. 
On the back, Patipasa Chhatrapa Liaka. 
TRANSLATION. 
In the seventy-eighth year, 78, (in the reign) of the king, the 
great MOGA, in the month of Panemos, on the fifth day, 5, on this 
aforesaid date, (in the time) of LIAKA, Satrap of Chhahdra and 
Chukhsa (? Hazara and Chach, or Chach-Hazara of the present day) 
in the north-western district of Zakhasilanagara, in (the 
village) named Chhema, (this monument) was made to hoid relies of 
the matchless teacher, Bhagavata Sakya Muni, by Buddha Rakshita, 
for the benefit of all Buddhists, for the benefit of his mother and 
father, also for the benefit of the Satrap, together with the wife of 
his son AYU-BALA-VARDDHAKA, and all her brothers, and * * * 
dhara ; also for the benefit of-—(not made out down to the last two 
words) the monastery of Nava Kamika. 
Notes on the inscription. 
I. On the date. The number of the year is written thus, atha- 
satatimae, which is evidently the Sanskrit ashta-saptatitama, or eight 
and seventy. The unit number also occurs, both written and figured, 
in the year 28, in Masson’s Hidda inscription, and again in my 
Yusufzai inscription from Ohind, in the day of the month. In figures 
the date of the year is made up of six cyphers, namely 3 twenties, 
plus 1 ten, plus 2 fours, which together amount to 78. The number 
of the day of the month is formed in a similar manner, thus, 4 plus 
1 =5, which being preceded by the word panchame, or “ fifth,” 
leaves no doubt of the correctness of the value assigned to the sym- 
bol x. The name of the month is Panemos, which was the ninth of 
the Macedonian calendar. This is preceded by the words Mahdrdya- 
