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always used as a noun (feminine), by so taking it, all difficulties of 
construction are avoided. Keeping in view the primary signification 
of the adjective, and the repeated use of this word in connection with 
dates, it may be conjecturally rendered as first or remarkable occasion. 
The day to which the phrase is applied may have been made famous 
by the deed which the Inscription commemorates, but, it may also 
have been notable for events of which we are necessarily ignorant, 
such as the birth or accession of the king. The second Hrikaina 
Inscription affords perhaps some slight corroboration of this theory, 
as it records the building of a temple in the first year of the king’s 
reign, possibly the first temple he had erected. The same Inscription 
supplies some little further support im the curious phrases immediately 
preceding and following the words “ etasydm puérvdydm.” Professor 
Hall transcribes the first passage as above, “ rajya-varsha-mdsa-dinaih,” 
but m Prinsep’s Lithograph (Journal Vol. VII. p. 632) the last word 
is clearly dineh. He, however, coincides with Professor Hall in trans- 
eribing it dinaih,i. e. an instrumental plural. This case, however, 
comes in very awkwardly as is shewn by the translation “7m the year, 
month, and day of his reign.”” The Lexicons afford no countenance to 
a crude form “ dini” for “day,” but if such a form exists, “ dineh” will 
be the Genitive singular and the context will read “On this notable 
oceasion of day, month and year in the king’s reign (or, of the king- 
dom).” After this passage, come the words “ swalakshanairuktaptrva- 
yam” * which Hall renders “as circumstantiated,” but which may signi- 
fy in accordance with the view now taken “an occasion remarkable for 
its peculiar incidents.” I propose these interpretations as conjectures 
only, and will readily give them up if better solutions are produced. 
The phrase “ etasydm purvdydm” is undoubtedly full of obscurity, and 
if I have failed in throwing a true light upon it, I must console my- 
self with the recollection that the deep learning of a Wilson failed to 
elicit its meaning. 
To return now to our Taxila Inscription. I propose to amend my 
translation as follows: “In the year seventy-eight (78) of the great 
king the great Moga, on the fifth (5) day of the month Panzemus. 
On this notable occasion, the Satrap of Chhahara and Chukhsa, by 
name Liako Kusuluko deposits a relic of the Holy S’akyamuni in the. 
s'epatiko (which he had) established in the country called Chhema, 
* The letters 7u are confessedly very indistinct and open to improvement. 
