442 Examination of the Inscription [May, 



...siya: antanam aviditanam kachha vasula .. (6) .. mama ichhami 



antasu . . . . i panevute ; iti. Devanampiye mataramaviye ... 



have vuti. Asvasevu cha sukhameva lahevu mama anodukhahevam 

 (sa) va nikhamachine : Devanampiya aha : kiti echa kiye : khami- 

 tave mama nimitam cha dhammam cha hevu, hidaloka palalokam cha 

 aladhayevu. Etasi athasi hakam anusasami tuphe anu (sathike) eta- 

 kena hakam anusasita cha (hi) dan cha vedita ahayami ; patina cha mama 

 ajalasa : hevam katukam me chalitaviyam ! 

 asve chi tani ena papune vu iti. 



Atha piye tatha devanampiye adhaka : atha cha ata hevam devanam- 

 piye (na) nusampati adhaka : atha cha paja hevam mane devanampi- 

 yasa ; se hakam anusasite va devanampiyaka dase vutike hosami. Etaye 

 athaye Dubaldhi tuphe cha swasanaye hitasukhaye cha (e) sa hidalo- 

 kika paralokikaye : hevancha Kalantam tuphe swagam sXkdfoayitave, 

 tate mama cha ananichham ehatha ! Etaye athaye iyam lipi likhita : 

 hida ena mahamataswasatam (nd) ma yajisati. A'sasanaye dhamma 

 chalanaye cha tastu atanam : iyamcha lipi anabhatun masam tisena na- 

 khatena sotaviya. Kamamcha khanakhanasi antalapi tisena ekena 

 sotaviya ; hevam kalanti tuphe, sanghatha sampatipadayitave. 

 Translation of the first separate Tablet at Dhauli. 



By command of Devanampiya (the beloved of the gods) ! In 

 (the city of) Tosali, the public officers in charge of the town are to 

 be enjoined (as follows :) — 



" Whomsoever I ascertain to be a murderer, him do I desire to be 

 imprisoned. This I publicly proclaim, and 1 will carry it into effect 

 however difficult : for this my supreme will is irresistible ! — On this 

 account the present tope (stupa) (is denominated) the tope of com- 

 mandment. 



"From amongst many thousand souls, oh ye my chosen people I re- 

 pair ye (hither) to the holy men. Every righteous man is my (true) 



Notes to the first tablet. 



Tosaliyam, equivalent to the Sanskrit loc. "^[^^t from "?TT^^t. Nagala vih&lafca 

 vataviya, «T^i^, it shall be said to the inhabitants, &c There should be a long a 

 to the two last words, viharaka vataviyd, perhaps omitted in copying. 



An kachhi de .. .. this mutilated sentence is filled up from the duplicate in the next 

 edict. 



K&linam, a prisoner from hard, (quere kdritam). 



Duvalate cha alabheham, see the observations — it is rendered here by the San- 

 skrit ■^^T^rf^^fKW ' and in spite of difficulties (irresistibilities) I execute ;' 

 which last word like the Sanskrit has the double sense of doing and killing. 



Mokhyamale, in Sanskrit ^ ^ fi irPsEfflrTf "^^T*» 'and this my primary will 

 is irresistible l' — This will correct an interpretation of the same word in the pillar 





