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we see a Tf surmounting a 3? contrary to the rules of the Sanskrit 

 grammar. The correction hazarded on this score in the third line 

 is of some importance, because it brings in the powerful Turushcas 

 (or Turks) as foes overcome by the nameless hero of the record. The 

 only name on the stone is that of Sri Tillaka Brahman, who was 

 most probably but the composer of the versification, or the engraver ! 

 so that nothing valuable to history has been gained but the fact of 

 the extension of Indian rule to this point of the Indus, and its early 

 struggles with the Tartar tribes beyond. As to date I should guess, 

 andt hat may be done with tolerable accuracy now from the gradual 

 transformation of the Devanagari letters, that it belonged to the 

 seventh or eighth century — somewhat less than local tradition assigns. 

 I have collected together line for line such words and sentences as 

 could be safely transcribed r — in some (as the fifth line) by supplying an 

 initial word, Kamalaka'nta' pandit has found a complete half verse. 

 The concluding words ^ajft %Tf*T sutra ki hogi has the sound of pure 

 Hindi ; it is not Sanskrit. 



Transcript of Inscription, Plate XL VI. 



^crfssff ^ w# ^*:t (if) 



7 fexrewrcm^rcra • • * w*ci^i . . fcrfacphra 



8 -?mrf^faf%wt — *• ....to* Hx^ro 



9 im «tt 



St 



io ^spro^rfTO . • . . • wzw TO*ra%CT*i 



1 1 ^ritrf *nx f t^tctcto WFfRre 



