146 Remarks on the Taxila Bactro-Paii Inscription. {No. 2, 
expected to have found the Bactrian letter 4, the initial of hat, or 
“hundred,” used as the symbol for 100, as we find in the western 
cave inscriptions, and on the Gupta coins. 
In the Taxila inscription the words etaye purvvaye, “ on this afore- 
said” (date), follow immediately after the date ; and I think that the 
same words follow the date in Court’s Manikyala inscription. But 
in the Mathura inscriptions the form of expression is always asya 
purvvaye, as well as in the two copperplate inscriptions of king Has- 
tina, published by Professor Hall. In another inscription, however, 
which I have lately discovered in the ruins of the ancient Srdvastz, 
the form of etaye purvvaye is used. Unfortunately the date of this 
inscription is lost, with the exception of the cypher for 10, followed 
by another cypher which could only have been a 4 or a 5, and which 
together no doubt formed the day of the month. The date of this 
inscription, however, is the only part that is lost. It is a short re- 
cord on the pedestal of a colossal statue of Buddha the teacher form- 
ed of the red sandstone of Fatehpur-Sikri, and therefore most proba- 
bly executed at Mathura. The name of Sdvasti is mentioned in this 
inscription, as well as the significant Buddhist terms, Zrepitaka, Bo- 
dhi-Satwa and Bhagavata. The concluding words are 
Kosambakutiya adchdryydndm Sarvastidinam parigrahe, 
that is “the accepted gift of the Sarvastidina teachers of the Kosam- 
bakuti,” or upper storied hall named Kosambakuti. I found the ruins 
of Sravasti, as I had already anticipated in a letter to Mr. Bayley 
written before I visited the place, in the ruined city now called Sé- 
het-Mdahet,—Sthet being the city, and Mdhet the great Jetavana 
monastery adjoining it. In Sdhet I recognize the most corrupt form 
of Sdwet, for the Pali Sdwatthz, which was the spoken form of the 
Sanskrit Srdvasti or Sdvasti. Iam happy to say that, on my recom- 
mendation the Governor-General has been pleased to direct that this 
important inscription shall be forwarded to the Society’s Museum in 
Calcutta, and, if possible, the statue also. 
T have noticed this Sravasti inscription for the purpose of illus- 
trating the Wardak inscription, of which the last line has been read 
by Babu Rajendralal Mitra as 
esha vihdra asanthdnam mahdsanghigana patigaha. 
By my discovery of the true form of the prefixed r, 1 am able to 
yead the third word as dchdrydnam, by which simple change this pas- 
