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He writes : — “ Regarding the inscription of S. 68 published by 
M. Senart, I can say that it was on a very large rough stone, which may 
have been inserted in a wall, but which could not have been the base of 
a statue. It was 5 feet 9 inches long, and from 3 feet to 1 foot 9 inches 
in breadth. The legend was on the edge. It weighed 12 maunds 
7 seers [= 1008 lbs. avoirdupois, = 457 kilogrammes], when I got it, 
but I cut it down to 4 maunds 3 seers, before sending it to the Lahore 
Museum, where, as I conclude from your account, it is left unregistered 
as presented by General Cunningham— from M&ji, 4 or 5 miles to the 
south of Fatehjang, ancient Ckasa, and to the south-west of Rawal 
Pindi.” 1 
The inscription is certainly in the Lahore Museum, because 
M. Senart expressly states at the beginning of his essay that all the 
monuments described by him belong to that museum, and were com- 
municated to him by the curator, Mr. L. Kipling. 
Concerning the dated Hashtnagar inscription ( page 55 of my paper) 
Sir A. Cunningham says that “ The date may be either 274 or 284, but 
it cannot, I think, be referred to 78 A. D.” I have already given up 
the suggestion to refer this date to the S'aka era, and have assumed that 
the approximate date of the inscribed pedestal is A. D. 220 or 230. Sir 
A. Cunningham observes that the Panjtar inscription of a Gushan, or 
Kushan, Maharaja, dated S. 122 is the latest “ which can be referred 
to A. D. 78.” If that record is rightly referred to the S'aka era its 
date will be A. D. 200, which is not far from the approximate date 
obtained for the Hashtnagar inscription by using the era of Moga or 
Gondophares. I think it may now be safely assumed that the use of the 
Gandharian (Kharoshtri) character in Gandhara survived into the first 
half of the third century A. D. The disuse of this character in India 
proper docs not imply its disuse in Gandhara. It is, no doubt, true that 
the Gandharian character is not used on the coins of Yasudeva, of whom 
wc have an inscription in old Kagan characters dated S. 98, = A. D. 176, 
and that coins of Kanishka (KANHPKO) and Yasudeva (BAZOAHO) 
which Sir A. Cunningham believes to be posthumous, bear legends in 
old Nagari. But I see no difficulty in believing that at the same time 
the Gandharian character had a limited local currency for some pur- 
poses within the region of Gandhara. 
When quoting ( page 59) Prof. Rhys Davids, as authority for identi- 
fying the “ village ” Kalasi in the “ island ” of Alasanda, where king 
Milinda (Menander) was born, with the Karisi nagara, or town of Karisi 
1 For a notice of Fatehjang, see Archaeological Survey Reports, Vol. XIV 
p. 24. 
