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Remarks on the above by JE. C . 13 ay ley, Esq. [No. 2, 
My reading after the three first words differs materially, as will be 
at once apparent. 
Sirae Bhagava Bodhabo prevvavetiye 
ye 
matuha sisa pituha sase 
loota sasi atiyo hratehajati 
As to the tentative reading which I am about to offer, it is neces¬ 
sary to say, that of four words it is very nearly, if not altogether, 
conjectural, of these three are the words “ sisa,” “ sase,” “ sasi.” It 
may perhaps be a bold guess and one which I confess is mainly 
founded on the context, but it is one which I nevertheless venture 
to offer, that these words are forms of one and the same word, and 
I further guess, that they represent the adverb “from,” modified in 
concordance with the number and gender of the word to which they 
are attached as with us is the case with the modern well known “ ka, ki 
ke,”of theHindustani genitive—originally also probably a similar quasi 
adverbial post position. If this conjecture be admissible, perhaps the 
form now found may be the ancient elaborate form of the modern 
Hindustani “ se.” I put forward this guess with great diffidence, but 
it may be worth at least examination before it is repudiated. 
The fourth word “ loora,” or better “ loota,” is one to which I can 
find no fair analogue. Col. Cunningham indeed informs me that he 
has met with the word “ liiira” in some of the local Hill dialects as 
the equivalent of “ children ;” this expression would accord better 
with Bajendra Lai’s rendering of the vowels than with my own ; 
but at any rate if my general rendering of the inscription be cor¬ 
rect, the word, whatever its exact form, must express some degree of 
kindred, specific or general. 
My own version, I may state, accords generally with one which Col. 
Cunningham long since communicated to me, and on that account per¬ 
haps 1 have the rather inclined to put it forward, side by side with 
that of so distinguished a scholar as Bajendra Lai, 
To begin with, I take the first fourteen letters to form two words 
only ; the first, as suggested by Babu Bajendra Lai, an inflected form 
