1863. | Remarks on the Taxila Bactro-Pali Inscription. 145 
given in this Journal by Babu Rajendralal Mitra. No doubt the 
general scope of the record has been determined by this first attempt 
at a complete translation ; but I must demur to the Babu’s reading 
of nearly every proper name, except those of Bhagavata and Huvish- 
ka, which had been previously deciphered by myself. I have other 
objections to make to the values assigned to several of the letters, 
but I will here notice only the words read as pushae and asanthdnam, 
which should be puyae (for punya) and achdrydnam. Both of these 
words will be referred to hereafter. This inscription opens with the 
date as follows :—San 20, 20, 10, 1, (== 51) mdsa Artamisiyasa* hi, 
10, 4,1, (=15). “In the year 5], in the month of Artemisios, on 
the 15th ”. One letter only is doubtful, although according 
to the form given to it in the copy, it should be ste, or perhaps vrz. A 
similar character occurs again between the words Vihdra and Bhaga- 
vata. The true form of the syllable wri occurs on my beautiful little 
bilingual silver coin of Vrishni Raja, and I at first thought that the 
word might be wrzhi, or vridi, for vriddht, and that it might refer to the 
fortnight of the increasing moon. Butif I have read the date of the 
Hidda inscription correctly, the days of the Macedonian months must 
have been numbered up to 30, as was done by the Macedonians them- 
selves. If we might read dwitt, or batz, or some word meaning “ second,” 
then the month would be Artemisios the second, which was the name 
given to Daisios by Alexander the Great shortly before his death. 
No. 4.— Yusufzai inscription from Ohind, Cunningham—See Jour. 
As. Soc. Bengal, 1854, and Thomas’s Prinsep, Plate X. fig. 2. This 
inscription opens with the date—San, 20, 20, 20, 1(==61) Chetrasa 
Mahasa Divasa athamiti, 4, 4 (== 8), “In the 61st year, in the 
month of Chaitra, on the 8th day” (=A. D. 4). 
No. 5.— Yusufzai inscription from Panjtar, Cunningham—See both 
plates just quoted. This inscription also opens with the date. San 
100 (?) 20, 1, 1 (= 122), Sravanasa masa sudi prathame, 1, Mahara- 
jasa Gushinasa Ra (or Ta) ————- “Inthe year 122 (?) on the 
first of the waxing moon of Sravana (in the reign) of the king of 
the Gushdn .’ The value of the figure for hundreds is doubt- 
ful; but as the power of the Awet-shwang is said by the Chinese not 
to have lasted beyond the third century, this figure is most probably 
the symbol for 100. I confess, however, that in a Bactro Pali in- 
scription dated after the beginning of the Christian era I should have 
