2 Decipherment of a Sanskrit Inscription. [No. 1. 



standard purity of the classical idiom will not fail to be perceived 

 by the learned reader.* 



^ mm xrT^cft^^r vw mvs^ fro* i \ \\ 



Wtcff VRcTT WTR[ ^TTrWT^f^T^T | 

 ^TTT^T^l cr^T^^Tcr^^^ft HI *f ft^T I! ^ || 



^w^ f^vrrti 3 *nf iff* fti^ ^ » a u 

 itm ^iftrt^if g fcrtzRf "srref ^3 n * 11 



^JTcT: ^3T§Wt^ f^ifti B^cT: WtTffi II $ II 



* A few faults of the engraver are here noted as specimens. The first stanza 

 has STT^frT f^TT*? : in the third it may be that he ought to have written f^fe^T : 

 and the seventh irametrically exhibits ^^f. In the twelfth stanza the original has 

 ^S^^T^"'^ J. This rnust De corrected as in my text, or else to «TJ^"[iJ'SJ : 



