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M. A. Stein —New inscriptions discovered by Major Beane. [No. 1, 
classes. The same remark applies to No. 20, the “ Sheikh’s baking 
stone” which is the largest specimen of this type of writing and also 
exhibits a closer approach to regular lines. 
Regarding No. 2, the only piece showing the characters of the 
Spankharra type, which was not actually obtained from that locality, 
Major Deane believes that it may have been carried to Banda Khalil 
(a small hamlet south of Hoti-Mardan in Yusufzai) by a Talib , it 
having been a Talib from whom he got it. 
The second type which M. Senart designated as that of Boner , was 
represented in his collection by four inscriptions all found near the 
village of Bichounai on the southern slopes of Mount Ilm, which divides 
Boner and Swat. M. Senart has already called attention, l. c., p. 17, to 
the relatively large number of complicated and elaborate characters found 
in this group. This peculiarity induced him to separate it from the 
third, notwithstanding the common occurrence of certain simpler signs 
in both of them. 
That this distinction was - justified, is now shown by the new in¬ 
scriptions gathered from the same region, Nos. 24-33. They all show 
a great variety of signs of a peculiarly elaborate type, either identi¬ 
cal with or similar to the characters found on the Bichounai inscriptions. 
As the find-spots of the new inscriptions are situated with one 
exception within the territory known as Boner, the designation given to 
this group by M. Senart lias proved singularly felicitous. At the same 
time we can see from a glance at the map that the localities which have 
furnished these inscriptions, are spread over a considerable tract of 
country. 
Nos. 24 and 25 come from Klai situated in the central part of Boner, 
circ. 72° 28' E. Long., 34° 32' N. Lat. No. 26 is a somewhat indistinct 
impression of a stone found near Miangam , a village on Ilm and hence 
probably not far from Bichounai. Ilm itself is shown on the ‘ Atlas of 
India’ Sheet No. 14, as the name of the mountain range whose highest 
point is Peak No. 81 (9,341 feet) as marked by the Trigonometrical 
Survey. Torsah , where the original of No. 27 is said to be walled into a 
house, is a place about 3 miles due west of Nlai. 
Ilm-o-Mianz , where Nos. 29 and 30 come from, is a village which 
according to Major Deane’s information is situated somewhere on 
the southern slopes of Mount Ilm and near to Bichounai and Padshah. 
From the latter place was obtained the impression No. 28 b. Still further 
to the north lies apparently Ghargam , in Puran, which has furnished 
the interesting inscriptions Nos. 32-34. 
To the south we are taken again by the small inscription No. 28 
which was picked up in the Malandri Valley leading up from Rustam 
