18 The Erikaina Inscriptions. [No. 1, 
ir^r^ifa'i wnnt )jtrai ^ wtih ^iHremw^r- 
woj* ^ifw^rwiriflw xriwfci %ra- 
TWTnuwfcr wt^fwHHjT^fcr wftirw ^ ^i ww- 
3 v» 
wrefTWTwi ^WTfwci^j w<pnfwi ^Htcrwmrrwi 
f%p^ firg^T^TfWT W- 
3nfWT : TRI fW^TT^aTIcI^f W^€figif3rt{Tf%WP 
fWTgfw^HT ^Jprctwj WW^TS- 
fninN ^iFrHTWWLS^ 1 ^- 
^rwfw^fll WTOWTSfaupT HxlfcT^W cT^«rfWTfWT§ 
cIHT^K'qfw^^ H^f^ap^TT ^ STTSftt^i: xmiTOIWTWH 
WPTcP WTT^ } 
\J ^ A 
^r^T*g Thwi^TwiriTNi: ^fcf ( 
Of the nest suppiial I have little move to say than that my guess, on which* 
X do not in the least conceit myself, is the best X can now wait to offer. How 
ill it assorts with the demands of the context has not passed unnoticed. Mean-, 
time, the passage in which it occurs is one of very immaterial significance. Tlio 
reduced facsimile of Mr. Prinsep, like the original, has an explicit before my 
speculative -jj. and, nevertheless,, he reads s|_ In what immediately succeeds 
he is utterly at fault. 
For the supplementations to the fourth and fifth lines recourse has been had 
to the other inscription. 
* This, I take it, is the word in which Mr. Prinsep thinks he sees “Su- 
rashtras.” 
t More than once have I met with this hoary solecism in Sanskrit books ; but 
where, recollection does not serve me to indicate. 
t In consequence of misreading this word, Mr. Prinsep espied something 
about a “ regency.” 
§ All along here Mr. Prinsep is quite abroad. He creates a “ Vaidalavishnu 
my ‘ victorious, in many a battle, over his enemies’ is transformed, by him, into 
“ Indravishnu and Matrivishnu is represented as being tautologically called, 
his great-grandson, and yet does not show himself thus in the English version.. 
The other inscription should have dissuaded from this.. 
