1870.] Sue Vihdr Inscription from near Bhdwalpur. 69 



The transliteration which I would now propose is as follows : 



1st line. 

 Maharajasa rajatirajasa devaputrasa Kanishkasa samyatsare 



ekadase, 11. Daisikasa masasa divase anullviinsate x x ? 19 ? 



2nd line. 

 ? ? ? 



Atreshwarasa bhichhusasa Naganatasa Dhakhabhalisa. Achha- 



yuda matata vasishtusu achhayu bhrataprasishtasa yati evu puyae 



? 

 iha damane 



3rd line. 

 ? ? ? ? < ? ? ? 



Vihara samine upasika anananda. Swa si lajaya matata 



? ? ? ?? m ? ? 



chha imraya vipatita anupatrimra anupatitata, dadati sarva budha 



4th line. 

 Strasa sukhaya bhavatu. 



Translation of the 1st line. 

 The translation of the 1st line cannot be mistaken, I think. It 

 is merely " On the 19th day of the month Daisik (Aawrtos) in the 

 " 11th year of the divinely descended great king, king of kings 

 "Kanishka." 



2nd. 



" For the religious benefit (equivalent to a pilgrimage) of Dhakha- 

 bhalisa the good the excellent mother and of the good and pre- 

 excellent brother of Atreshwara of Naganata the religious mendicant, 

 (this) for the holy lord (" samine" for swamine) the vihar, this 

 worshipper gives (dadati), turned back (vipatita) from his maternal 

 (virtue ?) — fallen away (anupatitata) from his ancestral . . . . ? May 

 it be for a cause of happiness to all Buddhism (?)." 



In the second line, I have some doubts as to the reading of the 



3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th and 10th words, and my version of the 5 th 



and 7th is purely conjectural. It may be a corruption of the word 



" acharyya," or more probably perhaps from the same source as the 



Hindi term for " good." 



3rd and 4th lines. 



The third line is extremely 'dubious both as to reading and 



? 

 version, but the last compound letter of anananda is new, though 



" d" evidently enters into the compound, and the other letters may 



