JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I.-HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
No. I. —1898. 
Notes on new inscriptions discovered by Major Deane.—By M. A. Stein. 
Part I . 
(With Plates I-VII.) 
[Read December, 1897.] 
It was in the autumn of 1894, that a paper read by M. Senart, 
before the Tenth International Congress of Orientalists and subsequently 
published in the Journal asiatique 1 drew the attention of all Indologists 
to the remarkable series of epigraphical documents, which the zeal of 
Major H. A. Deane, c.s.i., then Deputy Commissioner of Peshawer, 
had brought to light on the northern border of this district and in the 
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independent territory beyond it. These inscriptions from the ancient 
Qandhdra and Udyana have attracted all the more interest as the 
characters which appear in the great majority of them, have previously 
been wholly unknown and differ strangely from any known system 
of Indian writing. 
Major Deane has since continued his epigraphical search with 
unfailing energy, notwithstanding the heavy and responsible official 
duties which his appointment as Political Officer during the Chitral 
campaign and subsequently as Political Agent for Swat and Dir must 
1 Notes d’Epigraphie Indienne. — V. Les Recentes DJcouvertes du Major Deane , 
Journal asiatique, 1894, tome iv., pp. 332-353; 504-518. Also in reprint, Notes 
d’ Epigraphie Indienne , Fascic. 5., 1895. 
J. I. 1 
