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inscriptions would appear to be 

 much defaced, and little is yet made 

 of them. 

 These inscriptions appear to be of 

 different ages, from variations in 

 the character ; but owing to muti- 

 lations, Mr. Prinsep has done little 

 with them. One of them is in the 

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their spirit and variety of subjects. 

 This inscription is of considerable 

 importance, as, by its era of 73, it 

 confirms Mr. Colebrooke's correc- 

 tion by a thousand years of Dr. Wil- 

 kins's date of the Gaya inscription 

 translated by the latter. It is of 

 great importance, also,as it distinct- 

 ly shows the Buddhist impression in 

 those days of what Nibutti or Nir- 



vana meant, namely — as expressed 

 in the inscription — " the absorption 

 of his (the writer's) soul in the 

 Supreme Being" disposing of the 

 question of Buddhist atheism. The 

 inscription shows that the Bud- 

 dhists had still a hold in India in 

 the twelfth century. It was record- 

 ed by Sahasrapada, the treasurer of 

 the Raja Dasaratha Kumara. The 

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history. 

 The cave called Nagarjuna, after a 

 celebrated Buddhist patriarch, is 

 said in the inscription to have been 

 excavated by Ananta Varma. 





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Asoka Chandra 

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