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by scanty historical data from Indian sources, will be more conveniently 

 dealt with in connection with the internal evidence derived from style. 

 The other two heads may here be considered. 



The epigraphic material in the Gandhara region is unfortunately 

 meagre in quantity, and the little that exists gives but a small amount 

 of information. 



The local inscriptions, known in 1875, are enumerated by Sir A. 

 Cunningham,* and comprise the following records, namely, from 

 (1.) Jamalgarhi. (a) Certain mason's marks ; 



The Indian names of a weekday and a 

 month on a pilaster ; 

 (y) Sevenunintelligibleletters,readas Saphaii 

 dan&mukha, incised on the back of the 

 nimbus of one of the statues suppos- 

 ed to be those of kings. 

 (2.) Kharkai. (a) Masons' marks ; 



(/3) Three characters, read as a, ra, and de, 

 on the sides of a small stone relic- 

 chamber. 



(3.) Zeda. Inscription of Kanishka dated in the year 



11. 



(4.) Ohind. A fragment dated in the month Chaitra of 



the year 61. 



(5.) Takht-i-Balri. Inscription dated in the 26th year of Maha- 

 raja Guduphara, in the year 103 of 

 an undetermined era. 



(6.) Panjtar. Inscription of a Maharaja of Gushan or 



Kushan tribe, elated in the year 122. 



(7.) Saddo. The Indian name of a month on a rock. 



(8.) Sahri-Bahlol. The Indian name of a month on a fragment 

 of pottery. 



Inasmuch as Taxila may be included for the purposes of the his- 

 tory of art in Gandhara, the Taxila inscription of the Satrap Liako 

 Kusulako, dated in the 78th year of the great king Moga, should be 

 added to the above list. 



I have lately obtained an inscription on the pedestal of a statuette of 

 Buddha dated in the'year 274. 



All the inscriptions above referred to are in the alphabet variously 

 designated as Arian, Ario or Ariano-Pali, or Bactrio-Pali, which is 

 written from right to left, and was employed by Asoka (B. C. 250) in 



* Archceol. Hop., Vol. V, pp. 57—64. 



