356 Pratapachandra Ghosha —The Buddal Tala Inscription. [No. 4, 
original Sanskrit forms as to raise a presumption that the remainder, though 
more effectually disguised, will ultimately be found capable of similar treat¬ 
ment : a strong argument being thus afforded against those scholars who 
maintain that the modern vernacular is impregnated with a very large non- 
Aryan element. Secondly, the course of phonetic decay in all its stages is 
so strictly in accord with the rules laid down by the Prakrit Grammarians, 
as to demonstrate that the Prakrit of the dramas (to which the rules parti¬ 
cularly apply), even though extinct at the time when the dramas were 
written for the delectation of a learned audience, had once been the popular 
language of the country ; and as Anglo-Saxon imperceptibly developed into 
modern English, so has Prakrit been transmuted into modern Hindi, more 
by the gradual loss of its inflections than by the violent operation of any 
external influences.” Thus the recognition of Persian or any dialect of Per¬ 
sian as the vernacular of the country implies an historical untruth as re¬ 
gards the past and can only be verified in the future by the obliteration of 
all existing traditions. 
Transcript of the Tala Inscription of the Tnddal Tillar , Dinajpur, by 
Pandit Harachandra Ciiakravati'. Communicated by E. V. West- 
macott, C. S.— With an annotated translation by Pratapachandra 
Ghosha, B. A., Assistant Secretary , Asiatic Society, Bengal. 
In the 1st volume of the ‘ Asiatic Researches,’ a translation is given 
of this inscription by Wilkins, but without the text. A short time ago, 
Mr. E. Y. Westmacott, C. S. obtained a transcript from Pandit Harachandra 
Chakravarti which is given below with a fresh translation. 
Mr. Westmacott says that Buddal was a factory in the Company’s 
commercial days; it is on the Kulkuli-khari, about ten miles E. N. E. 
from Patnitala Police Station. The pillar is less than a mile N. E. of it, near 
Mangalbarx, and goes by the name of ‘ Bhim’s ox goad’ (Bhimer I anti) % 
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