1837.] on the Columns of Delhi, Allahabad, Betiah, $c. 587 



the great myrobalan tree and the holy fig-tree. My people shall 

 foster (accumulate) the great myrobalan. Pleasure is to be eschewed 

 as intoxication (?). 



My devotees doing thus for the profit and pleasure of the village, 

 whereby they (coming) around the beauteous and holy fig-tree may 

 cheerfully abide in the performance of pious acts. In this also are fines 



10 chappanti dradhuyitave 12. Athd hi pajati viyatdye dhdtiye nisijata 13 



11 asvathe hoti ; viyata dhdti chappati me pajan 14 ; sukham hald hdtave (ti) 15. 



12 hevam mama rdjakd katd \6,janapadasa hitasuhhdye, yena ete abhitd 



12. An unknown letter • in the word chayanti or chapanti leaves this sentence 



in the same uncertainty. Adopting the former we have ij-sr ^ K'W^T ^^f'rl 



^}T^|"$fiTrT, 'by which my devotees (may) accumulate for the purpose of the 



worship : — to pay the expenses of the worship from the accumulated nazars and 

 offerings.' 



13. A new subject here commences. ^^rrf% yw\ f^^rTT^ ^n%J f^ffsT 

 7f\7T 9 ' moreover let my people frequent the great myrobalan trees (which also 

 the Hindus prize very highly and desire to die under) in the night.' Thus reads 

 the pandit, but the last word is grrrTT, not y a ^ u »' an( * *' mav ^ e an adverb implying 

 1 occasionally' — or prohibiting altogether. Viyatdye may also mean * for the 

 learned,' viyatd in Pali being a scholar : in which case I should understand 

 fcffjr^rrcT as tne name of some third tree (like f^ffsrg«q T tne nyctanthes tristis 

 or f^nrn^^T tn e white water-lily which opens its petals (or smiles at night) so as to 

 connect the dhdtri with the asvattha ^p^^f, or holy fig-tree, thus : ^j"Srrf% 

 S^Tf^PTR ^r^fafa^fa^^Sretf^fa", 'the dhdtri, nisijdti and asvatha 

 shall be for the learned.' 



14. The same expression here recurs: fmftf W^t ( or HIW) "^fa 8" S'ST , 

 ' my people accumulates (or plants ?) the auspicious, or the great myrobalan'— 

 perhaps ^Tjfjf ' caresses' is be preferred in both places. 



15. Anewenjoinder ; ^#^TT ^rfT«5 or, following the Bakra and Mathia texts, 

 ^TmrefjT, may mean' the pleasure of drink (^ejj vinous liquor) is to be eschewed, 

 but for this sense the words should be inverted, as ^WHJIT' Tn e exact transla- 

 tion as it stands is, ' pleasure, as wine must be abandoned,' a common native turn 

 of expression, — ■ do this, — (as soon) take poison.' 



16. Katd must here be read as •^■^j — my devotees having done the 

 foregoing. 



