1837.] on the Columns of Delhi, Allahabad, Betiah, fyc. 603 



present generation have I endowed establishments, appointed men very 



wise in the faith, — and done for the faith. 



King Devanampiya Piyadasi again spake as follows : — Along the 

 highroads I have caused fig trees to be planted, that they may be 

 for shade to animals and men ; I have (also) planted mango trees : and 

 at every half-coss I have caused wells to be constructed, and (resting- 



2. janam dhammayutam 7. Devdnam piye Piyadasi heva aha : eta meva me anu- 



tekhamdne 8 dhammathdbhani katani 9, dhamma mahdmatd katd 10, dhamma ra 



hate. Devdnam piye Piyadasi Idja hevam aha. Mdgesu pi me 11 nigohdni ropdpitdni 

 chhdyopagdni hasanti pasumanisdnarn 12 : ambavabhikyd ropdpitd 13 : adhukosaydni pi me 

 vdupdndni 



3. khdndpdpitdni 14; nisi picha kdldpitd 15 ; dpdndni 16 me bahuhdni tata 



7. "Qirq&rsf ^j^nsj^j address yourselves to the people endowed with virtue 

 (the faithful). 



8. ^TT^SW ^•T^fV^TfTPJJ' e * a t here agrees with the sentence, called kriya 

 viseshan in Sanskrit. Anuvekhamtine 7th case ' among the now apparent,' that 

 is among the present generation. 



9. '?J?ngrn?«n'f^r UnTlfsT* ' religious establishments are made,' or perhaps 

 ^?fWT: pillars, made neuter according to the idiom of the Pali dialect ? 



10. ^fff ^^-j^ffff: fTfTT: the very learned in religion are made— i. e. wise 

 priests appointed. The succeeding word is erased, and it is unnecessary to fill 

 it up, as the sense is complete without. From the last line of the inscription, 

 where thambdni occurs, the missing letter may perhaps be read dh, dhara. 



11. ifTjf^fq' Jf sqiji^rj: ^mifqffTJj ' i* 1 m y roads nagrodh trees, (the banyan 

 tree or ficus indica) caused to be planted in rows.' 



12. ^i^PTJTr. ^ff^lf^T ^TWr^JT^f* 'shall be for giving shade to animals 

 and men.' The whole of this paragraph is smooth and intelligible. 



13. Abavadikya of the small or printed text is in the large facsimile ambavabhi- 

 kyd which leads us to the otherwise hazardous reading of ^ffU^jy: ' mangoe trees,' 

 the word ropapitd (applied just before to the planting of trees) confirms this 

 satisfactory substitution. 



14 * ^Tl^fTSHJlfsr ^^T*TTfiT» ' wells at every half coss.' — This passage is 

 highly useful in confirming the value of the letter J as u. Udupdndni should be 

 udapdndni. Khdndpdpitani, may be rendered ^nf5f«TT'^f caused to be dug, or 

 *HTrT ^nfVrlTfa' dug, and made complete — (pakha.) 



15. Several letters are here lost, but it is easy to supply them conjecturally 

 having the two first syllables, nisi and the participle kdldpitd : — fsffspsncT 

 ^rrg^JT: ^fq"^" ^fTf^fTp an( * houses to put up for the night in are caused to be 

 built. 



16. ^TnTTTTfa are taverns or places for drinking. Space for one letter follows 

 ^Tg, probably fif ;— tata tata, Sanskrit cTcTWrTt, here and there. 



