.1854.] Notes on two Inscriptions at Khunniara. 57 



Upon any fine summer day when the heavens are pretty free from 

 clouds a long and white smoke-like horizontal cloud is seen ex- 

 tending for several thousand feet from the immediate summit of 

 Kunchinjinga ; generally in a North Easterly direction ; as this cloud 

 is never seen on both sides of the peak at the same time, and as the 

 cloud has a visible motion to the north-east, and as it appears to 

 rise out of the crater-like face of the mountain, it certainly has all 

 the appearance of a continued supply of white sulphureous smoke 

 being emitted from the peak. 



It may be explained as follows ; a current of air passing over the 

 warm valleys of Nepal is driven up the face of the snowy range, a 

 portion of this current of warm air as it passes over the summit of 

 Kunchinjinga is condensed by the bitter cold air on its north-eastern 

 or Tibetan face and thus brought into sight. 



An Indigo-planter, who had lived for forty years in the plains and 

 in sight of Kunchinjinga, declared, that nothing would convince him 

 that the mountain was not an active volcano. 



Note on two Inscriptions at Khunniara in the Kangra district. — By 

 E. C. Bayley, Esq. C. S. 



The two inscriptions, of which rubbings have been already for- 

 warded, and of which copies by hand are now sent, are cut on two 

 large granite boulders about thirty yards apart, near the village of 

 Khunniara — pergunnah Eehloo, zillah Kangra. 



They are situated in a field about half way between the village 

 itself and the station of Dhurmsala on the edge of the high bank of 

 a mountain torrent, which issues from the lofty Dhurmsala range 

 about half a mile to the north-east. 



They are so clearly cut that there can be little doubt as to the 

 reading of either, one being simply — 



" Krishnayasasa arama," in Arian Pali, (Plate I. No. 1) the other — 

 " Krishnayasasya arama medangisya." (Plate I. No. 2.) 

 No. 2, which is in the square Indian character, has two additional 

 nymbols at its termination, one is the mere "swastika," the other, 



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