1870.] Notes on Sanskrit Inscriptions from Mathurd. Ill 



Draw water from the well. 

 Kiia ta yer umat. 



Walk before me. 



Na munne takat. 



^JJ TH <TT3rre. 



Whose boy comes behind me ? 



Miwa pija bonhor chauwa waiator ? 



From whom did you buy that ? 

 Immat tan bon sin mola te yetit. 



t^i^ <rnr ^r*r €fa ^t^tt w ^rftcr. 



From a shopkeeper of the village. 

 Natenor undi baniyan sin. 

 Tt£ ^TTT ^^ ^f^n^r ^r. 



Notes on Sanskrit Inscriptions from Mathurd. — By Bdhu Ka'jendra- 



LALA MlTRA. 

 [Bead 2nd September, 1868.] 



In the Proceedings for May, 1862, mention is made of some sculp- 

 tures and inscriptions which the Lieutenant-Governor of the N. W. 

 Provinces had placed at the disposal of the Society. These had been 

 found by Mr. Best, Collector of Mathura, while engaged in clearing 

 away, in 1860, a large earthen mound for the site of a new court- 

 house at the entrance of that station by the main road leading from 

 it to Agra. 



At one time there stood on this mound " a masjid of some anti- 

 quity which had been blown down for military reasons during 

 the mutiny," and under it there existed the remains of what was 

 once a Buddhist monastery. No attempt was made to ascertain the 

 extent of the building or to trace its ground-plan, but from the 

 size of the mound, and the quantity of stones and building materials 

 found, it was evident that the monastery must have been a large one, 

 and included at least two temples dedicated at different times. 

 Among the articles found, were a number of scidptures in the coarse 



