1862.] On some Bactro-Buddhist Belies from Bdwal Pindi. 1S1 
made towards an explanation of its meaning, and the te itself is 
generally written in a very different way. In the Behat Kunanda 
coins, til ejna occurs in the form of an h reversed, while the form of the 
letter in question is like a double v, If it be taken for the latter it 
would make the name Bodhabopravva or Boddhatepfavva, but with¬ 
out making any advance to its meaning : the word, however, being a 
proper noun, its meaning cannot be of much help, and I despair, there¬ 
fore, of coming to the right reading without extraneous aid. The next 
word is ratiydmau, rciti for rdtri “night,” yam a “ a watch,” or one 
fourth of the night, it being usual in India, as elsewhere, to divide the 
night into four watches. The u is supposed to be doubtful. I take it 
to be the case-mark for the locative. In the Lalita Vistara it is very 
largely used to indicate the omission of a case affix, and in the Hindi 
it is also met with.* The meaning of the whole clause is “ in the first 
watch of the night.” 
The second line begins with a word which may be taken for 
“drinking of joy” or “drunk with joy,” from hasisa “laughter” 
and pin “ drinking” or “having drunk.” The radicals of both the 
words are well known, and the only thing doubtful is the si in hasisa , 
particularly as the next word hasasila “laughing” or “joyous” is 
written without the si. The next word is iva sasi or “like the 
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moon,” from iva “like” and sasi “ the moon;” the letters are distinct 
and the meaning undoubted. The syllables which follow to the end 
of the line, are likewise distinct, except the last which looks more like 
lira than ha. Taking it to be ha , on the authority of the Kapur-di-giri 
record in which h sometimes occurs with a prolonged tail,f the 
question arises as to the property of using the word yoha “ a flock” 
or “ herd” with reference to men, in Sanskrita the use of its radical 
yuha being confined exclusively to beasts and birds. But perhaps it 
would be conceded that for a saint to call his pupils his “ flock ” 
or for his pupils, disciples, and congregation to describe themselves 
as “ his flock” even against the genus of the Sanskrita, is not such as 
to raise any serious obstacle to taking the word in that sense. The mean¬ 
ing would be “ rising above his flock.” The last word of the record is 
* Vide my paper on the Gatha Dialect, ante vol. XXII. p. 608. 
t Since writing the above I have had an opportunity of examining the original 
gold plate, from which I find that our facsimile is not correct, inasmuch as it 
shews the tail of the h to be longer than it is in the original, where it is of the 
same relative size as in ordinary hs, only not quite as curved, the difference pro¬ 
ceeding from a desire on the part of the engraver to avoid bringing it into 
contact with the right foot of the preceding letter. 
