268 Inscription from Pu-gin. [No. 3, 
bestows or presents certain land, and agricultural implements, in 
order that pure milk, or a preparation of rice-milk, or milk and 
honey, may be available; and after blessing those who assist in the 
good work, the inscription concludes with dreadful imprecations on 
those who destroy it. While the donor is not mentioned, though 
ene word implies a royal benefactor, nothing is even said as to whom 
the offering is intended for; but perhaps that would have been in- 
decorous, as it was probably a gift to a monastery, and Budhist 
monks, not only theoretically must be dependent on daily charity 
for their food, but must be utterly indifferent to it, except to support 
life for the purpose of practising virtue. But milk is not taken as 
food by grown up people in Burmah; or at all events is only lately 
beginning to be used. Possibly the milk may have been intended 
for foreign Budhist monks from Ceylon, who, there is reason to be- 
lieve, about the time of the inscription, were not unfrequently at 
Pu-gan. 
Some explanatory notes have been added to the inscription. The 
original consists of eighteen lines, and the copy in modern charac- 
ters is written to correspond with it. 
Copy of the inscription in modern character. 
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