3SG1.] Translation of a Bactrian Inscription. 3475 
The sera in the Wardak and Muttra inscriptions may be that of 
the Nirvana of Buddha, the Seleucidan sera or some other yet 
unidentified. 
As to the word “ Vrehi,” it is I fear so clear, that it can hardly read 
otherwise, but it very probably is some local contraction or corruption 
of Yrihaspati as Babu Rajendra Lai supposes. 
The proper name read “ Ugamatega” occurs twice. I think the 
first letter cannot without violence be read otherwise than “ va” 
or va. 
The words before “Bhagavat” which Babu Rajendra Lai omits as 
unintelligible, seem to me to contain some play upon the root “ mri” 
and perhaps may be some epithet like “ dead but undying” applied 
to the “ Bhagavat” or “ Sarira.” 
I wish very much that I could give my adhesion to Babu Ra- 
jendra Lai’s reading of the second word of the second line,* but I do 
not think that the letter read.as “ kh” can by any possibility be so 
accepted, the general meaning, however, of the passage cannot be 
much altered by any substitution of the word. 
As to the words “ aga bhaga,”. “ pusa” and “ bhavatu,” I have to 
explain that I had read the latter not as “ bhavatu” but as “ ebha- 
vutu,” supposing a corrupt form of conjugation. 
I think it will be found that, in the Manikyala inscription, a still 
greater deviation from the Sanskrit mode of conjugating the verb “ to 
be,” exists, but I cheerfully accept the “ bhavatu” as read by Babu 
Rajendra Lai, transferring the supposed initial “ e” to the preceding 
nouns as the sign of their oblique form. 
As to “ aga bhaga,” my reason for reading it as an expiation for sin 
was, as Babu Rajendra Lai surmises, an impression that the first syllable 
was a corruption for “ agha,” the latter I supposed might represent 
the Hindu “ Bhagut lena” to work out or expiate ; however “ aga 
bhaga” if it can be taken in the sense of good fortune is doubtless 
far better reading, so also for “ pusa,” for which I was obliged to 
coin a meaning in the absence of any satisfactory one available to 
me in Wilson’s (first) Sanskrit Dictionary, the only one at the time 
available to me. 
* It occurs also quite clearly in the Mauiliyala inscription. 
