794 Further elucidation of lat or Silasthamba inscriptions. [Sept. 



Esdkokoti ndyittha pure pdpena kammund ; Dhammdsokoii ndyittha pachchhd 

 punnena kammund. 



" On account of his former sinful conduct (in having murdered his brothers) 

 he was known by the name of Asoko. Subsequently on account of his pious 

 character, he was distinguished by the name of Dhammasoka." 



§ 2. Duplicate inscription from Delhi. PL XLI. 

 I now turn to an illustration of my text from another quarter, Major 

 P. L. Pew, has fulfilled his promise of forwarding impressions of the bro- 

 ken pillar lying in the late Mr. W. Fraser's grounds. I should have 

 made them the subject of a separate note but that really they are so 

 precisely the duplicates of the Feroz inscription that it is not worth 

 while to do so. The shaft seems to be mutilated and worn in vertical 

 grooves so that many of the letters in each tablet are effaced. Of the 

 fragments received one belongs to the north compartment, beginning 

 with line 10 (see p. 582): — the next much injured, corresponds with 

 the western tablet, beginning with line 10 (p. 587) : — the third and last 

 is nearly perfect ; beginning with line 8 of the southern inscription it 

 runs on to the conclusion. The words are separated as in the Feroz 

 lat, and from this circumstance I have been enabled to certify a few 

 doubtful readings— although many others are provokingly cut off. 

 I insert a lithographed facsimile of the whole, and annex at foot* all 

 the noted variations of the text, of which proper use can be made 

 when I come to review my labours. Major Pew gives the following 

 particulars of the original locality and present state of the column. 



* I may throw the only deviations I can find into the form of Emendata thus : — 

 North Inscription— in the Roman transcript. 

 Line 18 for asinavai, read dsinave. 



] 9 for dupatavekha, read du ? pativekhe. 



20 read, dsinavdgdmini. 

 West Side — line 10, the letter in chappanti is written [^ . it must, I think, be 

 a gh, formed from the jj. h. 



Line 12 for abhitd we have abhltd, fearless. 



17 for yitahanti yanisanti, the preceding letters cut off. 



18 for palitikam, read pdlitikam. 



19 for nirodhasi, nirudhasi. 



South Side, — line 8, the words are avadhiye pdtakepicha, and further on 

 vadhikokute, &c, quasi "Sp*: effgj^f ■^rafW— ' the kim ng of f °wls is not to 

 be done.' 



Line 16 we have tisu chdtummdsisu sudivasdye, &c. in Sanskrit f^^rTWlij 

 ^Sfe^J. ' in the/es/iwa/ days in the three 4 -monthly periods ? 



Line 17 the very is properly made plural, nllakhiyantl. 



13 the word machhe is evidently separated from anuposatham and con- 

 nected with avadhiye ; ' fish unkilled' is therefore the right reading. 



