1637.] on the Columns of Delhi, Allahabad, Bet iah, %c. 609 



by manifold other virtuous acts performed on my behalf. And that 

 the religion may be free from the persecution of men, increasing 

 through the absolute prohibition to put to death living beings, or to 

 sacrifice aught that draweth breath. For such an object is all this 

 done, that it may endure to my sons and their sons' sons — as long the 

 sun and the moon shall last. Wherefore let them follow its injunctions aud 

 be obedient thereto — and let it be had in reverence and respect. In the 

 twenty-seventh year of my reign have I caused this edict to be written ; 

 so sayeth (Deva'nampiya) :— " Let stone pillars be prepared and let 

 this edict of religion be engraven thereon, that it may endure unto the 

 remotest ages." 



10 analabh&ye pdndnam : se et&ye athdye iy am hate : putd papotike 44 chanda ma- 

 suliyike 45 hotuti : tathacha anupatipajantuti hevam hi, anupatipajantdm hi 46, ata la- 

 dha ta aladhahoti, 47 satavisati vasdbhisitename iyam dhammalibi likhapdpitdti, eta 

 Devanampiya aha ; — " Iyam 



11. dhammalibi ata athd silathabhdnivd sila dhalakaniva tata kataviyd ; ena esa 

 chilathiti sii/d."48 



42. Niyamdni neuter for the Sanskrit masculine f«r*jiTT aad so tne 

 participle. 



43. ^fafw!r *?WTTf, ' b y the not killing of animals,' ^•TT^WTIJ ^f^TTf, 

 1 by the not sacrificing of living beings.' ^jt ^fPER^^JT^ T^flT?n, ' so with such 

 object is this done.' 



44. Tj^5T*rTf^efr ' pending from sons to greatgrandsons' — from generation to 

 generation. 



45. ■^■55^^$^'^, 'pending the sun's and moon's (duration), TOfU^fir. 



46. For anupatipajantu, see note 13, north inscription. The duplication 

 ^•T^f^PTSpft Tfa ^•f^ffftr^T'Trf f%, the first in the common form, the second 



\9 \» \» 



I proper form of the verb, seem intended to make the order more impressive and 

 imperative. 



47. The half effaced word cannot well be explained ; the second is ^PCref 

 %RiW, ' iet ifc be reverenced', or 4 let reverence be,' probably the word is repeated 

 here as before. 



48. The final sentence I did not quite understand when writing my first 

 notice, having supposed silathabhdni to represent the Sanskrit silasthdpana. 

 After careful reconsideration with the pandit, we recognize the Pali as rather 

 the exact equivalent for silastdmbha, a stone pillar (made neuter) : the sentence 

 may therefore thus be transcribed ^ ^pjf%f^: ^J?T: ^HEf f^TT^mT: 

 ^" faw^TfoffT ^ «TrT: 3r£*m V?f VX fcPCftsfa: W<T. The translation 

 is given in the text, A'dhdra, a receptacle, a stone intended to contain a 

 record. The words silathabhdni and siladhalakdni however, being in the plural 

 and neuter, require kataviyani also neuter, which may be effected by altering the 

 next word ena to dni, — ena being superfluous though admissible as a duplication 

 •f esa. 



