428 Remarks on the Taxila Inscription. [No. 4, 
north-east of the city of Taxila, in honour of the great collective body 
of worshippers and of all the Buddhas ; for the honouring of his father 
and mother ; for the long life, strength and prosperity of the Satrap’s 
son and wife; for the honouring of all his brothers and relatives; and 
for making known his great liberality, fame and success.” 
General Cunningham proposes to identify Chhahara and Chukhsa 
with Hazara and Chach, or “ Chach-Hazara” as the twin districts are 
now designated. The locality is suitable and there is some similarity 
in the sound of the words, but the identity cannot be considered more 
than presumptive. A clearer and more valuable identification is pro- 
posed in his supposition of the Joga of the Taxila Inscription being 
the same as the Moa or Aaua of the Coins. To support this identifi- 
cation he cites the name of Gondophares, which appears on some of 
the coins as “ Undopherras.” In my former paper I have given reasons 
for considering the Yarugasa and Yaiiasa of the coins to be varying 
forms of the same word, like dhamikasa and dhamiasa. To this IL 
will now add, in illustration of the way in which the guttural letters 
are elided, the name by which the Prakrit designates itself, 1. e. Pada- 
dam = Prakritam. So far as mere orthography goes, the names may 
be considered identical. The number and variety of the coms of J/oa 
prove him to have been a monarch of considerable power and import- 
ance, one from whom an era might well take its rise. For these and 
the other reasons which General Cunningham has advanced, I am dis- 
posed to consider the identification of Joga with Moa to be all but 
proved. 
General Cunningham’s rendering of the Peshawar Vase Inscription 
as amended in his Postscript at page 172 is identical with my own, 
save and except the first letter, which is given as S instead of G. This 
is a manifest error of the copyist or printer. We get the letter m of 
ayam somewhat differently. He perceives a dot after the y which he 
takes to be the m; I, however, find the nasal in the curve of the right 
limb of the y. A few passages of the Wardak Vase Inscription have 
also come under the notice of General Cunningham and he proposes to 
amend Rajendra Lal’s reading “asansthanana?’ in the last line by 
substituting “acharyanam.” Not satisfied with the Babu’s reading, 
I somewhat hesitatingly changed it in my version to “asans'rana” 
a word of much the same meaning. Rajendra Lal admitting the 
General’s rendering to be more appropriate, demurs to the accuracy of 
