INSCRIPTION FROM BUDDHA GAYA. 



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'Note of the alterations introduced in Version II. of Plate II, (the Transcript of the 

 Facsimile, Plate I. in the Kyouk-cha, or square stone- letter,) on comparing the 

 Copy received from Ava with the three fresh Facsimiles taken hy Mr. Hathorne, 

 from the original stone at Gaya. J. P. 



The figures denote the commencement of each line in the original : — The letters mark 

 alternations of reading, as follows : — 



Ava transcript. Lithographed ti'anscript. 



a. 





r, altered to 



5 



ra. 



b. 





nd, 



a? 



na. 



c. 



o 







nhui. 



d. 









n. 



e. 



I, o, p 



, the letter 





w, omitted in the Ava transcript. 



/• 





r, altered to 



HI 



y- 



9- 



ifi 



hi, 





ri. 



h. 





4, this figure is 



here correctly used in the Ava text as 4. 



i. 





m, altered to 





y- 



J' 



k, n, q, 



s, t, U, V, W, X. 





A, c, D, H, Q, s, u ; in all these 



is used for the letter r, in lieu of H ^ which latter agrees better with the 

 facsimile. 



r. in this the latter form of r ^ rya ) is used in the Ava version. 



B, ^ tu (grandson) altered to hu (by) : — this may be a fault of the sculptor. 

 I. E. (4.) altered to (6) on the authority of the facsimile. 



J. F. LU, y, £f it does not alter the sense. 



G. \ n, ^ 



K. caret ..... ry lha. 



M. 

 L. 



o. 



p. caret nT ^• 



R. n^H, ^oa, to, liT earth — doubtful reading. 



T. HUJbl ay^7 Tll^ ; ^^^^ ^^^^'^ sense. 



caret O^tf thiuv (pronounced do.) 



•^Z, 21, v4"»- 2 (men); this reading is doubtful. 



