CONCERNING SOME OLD SANSKRIT. 97 



Svacittaparidamanam, etad buddhanucasanam (3) 



Between the two formulas Ye dharmd dc, and Sarvapd- 

 pasya dc, there is no more necessary connection than between 

 the former and the sentence ajridndc ciyate dc. There is 

 therefore nothing strange in finding as the second couplet first 

 the one sentence and then the other (4). The second inscrip- 

 tion in which the couplet dnjdndc dc, is found, was dug up by 

 Colonel Low in the North of Province Wellesley (5). The 

 inscribed stone seems to have been the upper part of a column. 

 On a copy of this ancient record which was published in 1835 

 without any explanation (6) can be seen the representation of 

 a stupa, the under part of which is formed by a sphere and 

 not as usually by a hemisphere. Above the sphere rises a row 

 of so-called umbrellas. On either side stands a line of writing. 

 On the right side can be read : — 



Ajnanac ciyate karmma janmanah karmma karana (m) 



Of the writing on the left side I can only make out the 

 word jiidnd (7) Fortunately what is left is sufficient proof that 

 the inscription, apart from certain differences in spelling, is 

 identical with the second couplet on the Kedah stone. That 

 stone reads janmana with a ' Jihvamuliya ' whilst the in- 

 scription on the pillar spells the same words with a 'visarga.' 



Besides this two-lined verse the pillar has also another 

 inscription along the edge. Beginning from the top on the 

 right-hand side we can recognise the inscription given in 

 facsimile on Plate IV in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal XVII 2 and numbered 8 (8) It runs : — 



(3) See Csoma Korosi in J. As. Soc. B. IV 134 Cp. Spenee Hardy 

 Manual of Buddhism 198. 



(4) Already noticed by B. H. Hodgson in J. As. Soc. B. IV 211. 



(5) J. As. Soc. B. XVII 2, 64 (Misc, Papers relating to Indo- 

 China. Vol. I. 223-226). 



(6) J. As. Soc. B. IV pi. III. 



(7) On the facsimile No. 10 on PI. IV of J. A. S. B. XVII 2 the 

 second line is almost entirely missing. 



(8) The transliteration and translation given by Babu Rajendra- 

 lal Mitra bear little resemblance to it. 



R. A. Soc, No. 49, 1907. 



