Concerning some old Sanskrit Inscrip 

 tions in the Malay Peninsula. 



By Professor H. Kern. 



Extract from ' De Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Konuiklijke 



Akademie van Wetenschappen.' Division ' Literature ' 



3rd Series. Part I. * 



To complete my former communications in these pages 

 upon the history of writing in the Indian Archipelago, I now 

 desire to consider some inscriptions in the Malay Peninsula. 

 Of these inscriptions, discovered by Colonel Low and published 

 by him in facsimile, one only has come down to us perfect ; 

 the rest are very fragmentary. 



The first inscription was found in Kedah. It was engrav- 

 ed on a stone — a kind of slate — under the floor of a ruined 

 building which had once measured ten to twelve feet square. 

 This circumstances together with the contents of the inscrip- 

 tion lead us to suspect that the building may have been the 

 hut (kuti) of a Buddhist monk. A transliteration and transla- 

 tion of the inscription were published by J. W. Laidlay in the 

 Journal of the Eoyal Asiatic Society of Bengal XVIII 247 (l). 

 Although this gentleman who was at the time of the publica- 

 tion Secretary of the Asiatic Society has noticed the chief 

 points in the inscription which call for comment, I give my 

 own transliteration of it which differs in a few minor points 

 from his. It runs thus : — 



* Note. — This translation is published with Professor Kern's per- 

 mission. 



(1) The facsimile on plate X. (This paper and plate are repub- 

 lished on pages 232-234 of Volume I of * Miscellaneous papers relat- 

 ing to lndo-China ' reprinted for the Straits Branch Royal Asiatic 

 Society London 1886). 



Jour, Straits Branch, R. A. Soc. No. 49, 1907. 



