1870.] Notes on Sanskrit Inscriptions from Mathurd. Ill 



the last word of the first line as S'ravasti, but it appears to me to be 

 very unlike it. After a very careful study of the original for some 

 hours, I make it out to be bhihslmsya, the last two letters correspond- 

 ing with the sadya of the next line. The figure is 7 feet high, and is cut 

 in the same material (red sandstone) of which theMathura sculptures 

 are formed. It was dedicated by two Buddhist mendicants, Mihira 

 and Tripitaka, with funds received for the good of mankind from 

 one Bakrateya. The grammatical connection of the third line with 

 the second is not obvious, and the meaning had therefore to be 

 guessed from the instrumental case of the phrase Bakrateya 

 sucharyena. 



Transcripts and Translations of the Metthurd Inscriptions. 



Plate IV. No. i. — Bound the base of a Pillar (deposited in the 

 Museum of the Asiatic Society.) 



nef^8° *?^HJ5TO T^ITf?KaFST t^pTO ^f^PS f^TT ^T^f 



A present, on the 40th day of the year 59, to the Yihara of the 

 great king, the king of kings, the divinely born (or the son of a 

 Deva) Huvishka, by the mendicant (Bhikshu) Jivaka Udiyanaka, 

 known by the name of the breath-suspended.* May it prove a 

 blessing to all mankind I The fourteenth congregation. ' 



Plate IV. No. n. — Eound the base of a Pillar (deposited in the 

 Museum of the Asiatic Society.) — 



The gift of Devili of the race of Dadhikurna Devi, on the 80th 

 day of the year 59. 



Plate Y. No. in. — Eound the base of a Pillar (deposited in the 

 Museum of the Asiatic Society.) — 



1W It « 



The gift of the mendicant (Bhikshu) Buddha-dasa Saiigha- 



* The words in the original are Kubhaka soma, which I take to be a corrup- 

 tion of Kumbhalca-saujna from KumbhaTca, suspension of breath in religious 

 meditation, and sanjnd a name. 



f The reading of the figure is doubtful. 



X The reading of the last word is conjectural. 



