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[No. 3, 
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 
accurately, but the inscriptions themselves will, I trust, soon be pub¬ 
lished in our Journal from the originals which the Lieutenant-Go¬ 
vernor has kindly placed at the disposal of the Society, and which 
the East India Railway Company have liberally agreed to convey 
to Calcutta. 
I do not therefore propose now to describe them at length, and 
merely say that an inscription on one of the pillars declares the 
building to have been a “ Yihar of the great king of kings Huvisli- 
ka,” whose name occurs in the well known Bactro-Pali inscription 
found at “Wardak” in Afghanistan. Colonel Cunningham was the 
first to point out that there can be little danger in identifying this 
Huvishka with the Hushka of the Scythian kings mentioned in the 
Raja Tarangini, in the same manner as the “Kanishka” of the 
same authority and of the early traditions handed down to us from 
other sources, has been identified with the Kanishka of at least one 
Bactro-Pali inscription, that of Manikyala. The two kings are too 
almost beyond doubt the Kanerki and Ooerki of the Indo-Scythian 
coins. 
Several of the Muttra inscriptions, including that which mentions 
Huvishka, are dated in ciphers, and it is curious that apparently the 
same class of ciphers is used as in the Bactro-Pali inscriptions which 
read from right to left; throughout the inscriptions from Muttra are 
all in the Indo-Pali characters which read from left to right. 
Unfortunately we are as yet unable either to assign any value to 
these ciphers, or to be sure of the era to which the dates refer. The 
present discoveries, however, afford data which it is to be hoped may 
render the solution of the enigma more easy. 
Two of the inscriptions record the titles, and one also the date of 
another king whose name, however, is unfortunately imperfect, and 
which we can at present only say began with the word “Yasu,” it 
may have been Yasu Deva, Yasu Mitra, or some other similar com¬ 
pound. 
Some names of places are also mentioned as Udiyana, possibly the 
modern Hurriana. 
These results, however, and I hope others, will be given at length 
in the Journal on the arrival of the inscriptions themselves, which 
I trust may be at no distant date. 
I can only say that I hope some remaining portion of the mound 
