1841.] Opening of the Topes at the Caves of Kanari. 97 



Literal Translation. 



Salutation to Sarvagna, (a Jine or Boud'dka, or deified sage peculiar 

 to those sects.) 



This was founded in the year of the reign of the Trukudaka line 

 about 100 years at Bardhamanu* 54 on the north, and 85 at Malm 

 Behar, by Pushya Burma, whose habitation was in the northern forest 

 of the conquered Taromi, and who, by his personal beauty, was possess- 

 ed of a Buddhistical appearance as a Chaitya,] in honor of the most 

 powerful, very wise, and superior Bhagavana Sakya, Muni, whose acts 

 were wonderful, and who was the son of Sdrad'dhati, for the purpose of 

 his studying and practising with firm devotion the famous Boud'dka 

 religion, the duty of a learned man. 



So long as the revolving waves wherein the Makara\ are swimming 



at night, the milky water of the Kshira Samudra, (sea of milk,) the 



Meru with its abundant gold and the forest of mangoe — the deep 



rivers continuing to flow with their clean streams will endure, so long 



this deed of Pushya, which contributes to the advancement of devotion, 



is durable. 



Note. — I have most unwillingly kept back Dr. Bird's paper for many weeks, in- 

 tending to publish it together with a notice of the late Lt. Pigou's Discoveries at 

 Buhurabad near Jullalabad, on the frontier of Afghanistan. I thought the almost 

 simultaneous examination of a set of topes situated close to a set of caves, giving si- 

 milar results nearly at places so distant as Buhurabad and Kanari, worthy of being 

 placed in juxta-position, as of interest to the investigator of Boodhist antiquities. I 

 am extremely sorry that great delay in the preparation of a simple lithograph to 

 accompany the Buhurabad paper should have caused the suppression of this inter- 

 esting paper for so long a time. Having heard a few days ago from Dr. Bird, with 

 the promise of a translation of the inscription on the two copper plates dug from 

 the Dehgop at Kanari, copy of which accompanied his paper, I determined on pub- 

 lishing the reading of one of them (subject to correction by Dr. Bird) as given by 

 Pundit Kamalakanta Vidyalanka, and the literal translation of that reading, which 

 I owe to a native gentleman of much learning and intelligence, Baboo Neelratna 

 Holdar of Calcutta. The inscription is numbered xxviii. (and so copied erroneously 

 into the lithograph,) in a work shortly, I am happy to say, about to appear on the 

 Excavations in Western India, originated by Mr. Wathen, well known as a Sanscrit 

 scholar, and carried on by Dr. Bird. |T| 



* This country is also mentioned in the 25th sloka of the Pratdpa Rudra inscription, 

 vide Asiatic Journal, No 82, 1838, page 906. 



f Place of religious worship. This, if the word druma be added to it, means a sacred 

 tree. 



X A horned fish, or a fabulous animal. 



N 



