680 Facsimiles of Ancient Inscriptions, [Au$* 



Nos. 19 and 20. ^J^T^n; klesha kdntdra, a title of similar pur- 

 port to daridra kdntdra, ' the cave of affliction.' 



Fragments of Inscription from Cashmir. 



No. 22, is a fragment of the only inscription Mr. G. T. Vigne 

 was able to meet with in his recent tour to Cashmir. It is quite 

 illegible, though perhaps it may be asserted to be Sanskrit. It is 

 hardly worth recording what the pandits of the valley pretended to 

 make of it, (mipadu dabha 24,) as they were certainly wrong in every 

 letter ! It was found on a small Buddha stone, five feet high ; and 

 is therefore most probably a portion of the usual sentence on such 

 objects. 



No. 23, is copied from the impression of a fine sulimdni or calce- 

 donic agate seal, discovered in the vicinity of Ujain and presented to 

 me by Lieutenant E. Conolly 6th Cav. I have inserted it here on 

 account of the close resemblance of its character to that of No. 4, 

 (plate XXXV.) It is also very like the elongated style of the Sau- 

 rashtra coin legends lately deciphered. The reading is ^ffafew^? 

 4 (the seal) of Sri Vati Khudda' — a name unknown in Hindu nomen- 

 clature. It is rather uncertain whether the second letter be not open 

 at bottom, in which case it will read Bhati. 



Inscription on the Jetty at Singapur, PL XXXVII. 



Numerous have been the inquiries about this inscription — numerous 

 have been the attempts to procure a copy of it, from some of the 

 constant visitors to the Straits for amusement or the benefit of their 

 health. By some I was assured that the letters were evidently Euro- 

 pean and the inscription merely a Dutch record. Others insisted that 

 the character was precisely that of the Delhi pillar, or that of 

 Tibet. "While the last friend, Lieutenant C. Mackenzie, who kindly 

 undertook the commission, gave it up in despair at its very decayed 

 state which seemed utterly beyond the power of the antiquarian ; and 

 in this he was quite right. Nevertheless a few letters still remain^ 

 enough to aid in determining at least the type and the language, and 

 therefore the learned will be glad to learn that Dr. William Bland, 

 of H. M. S. Wolf, has at length conquered all the discouraging diffi- 

 culties of the task, and has enabled me now to present a very accurate 

 facsimile of all that remains any way perceptible on the surface of the 

 rocky fragment at Singapur. 



The following note from himself fully explains the care and the 

 method adopted for taking off the letters, and I have nothing to add 

 to it but my concurrence in his opinion that the character is the Pali, 

 and that the purport therefore is most probably to record the exten- 



