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may, at some future date, be completely explored as well as the 
many similar mounds existing at Muttra, all of which probably 
cover, and some of which are known to cover, similar remains. 
From the accounts of Fahian and Houan Tsang who describe 
twenty monasteries (some as old as Asoka) as standing in their time 
as well as other buildings, some Buddhist, some Hindu, there can 
be no doubt of a rich Antiquarian harvest from any properly con¬ 
ducted excavations. 
The following extract of a letter from Colonel Cunningham to Mr. 
Bayley was also read :— 
“ 1 was glad to receive your letter of the 17th with all its inform¬ 
ation about coins and inscriptions. 
I duly received Bajendra’s translation of the Wardak inscription. 
1 think that he has given the general scope of the inscription, but 
he has certainly erred in many of the details, as several of his read¬ 
ings are quite inadmissible. What does he mean by saying that I 
read the figure 9 as 3 ? I read 0 3 3 as 331 ; and now for the 
proof that this is the correct reading and that the date is in the 
Seleucidan era—I read the opening of the Wardak inscription as 
“San 331 Attamisiyasa divasa vrelii 14”—“In the year 331, on the 
fourteenth day of the increase of Artemisias.” What do you think of 
that reading ? Artemisias was the seventh of the Macedonian months, 
and if the Seleucidan era was in use, we ought to find the names of the 
Macedonian months also. Now turn to Ariana Antiqua, to the ink 
inscription from No. 13 Tope at Hidda, which I read 
San >< X. ^ Mdse Apilaesa vrehi dasami. 
In the year XX <] on the 10th of the increase of the month Apel- 
loeus.” A careful examination of the original might perhaps show 
Apileyasa as the true reading. The word s'arira (relic) occurs 
shortly after the date in this inscription. 
Inscription No. 3, Plate IX. of Thomas has the same year X X H 
but I read the remainder of the date doubtfully as 
“ Mdsa Attamisiyasa Vrehi 1.” 
I have an impression of this inscription which differs in some let¬ 
ters from Thomas’s copy. Another inscription of which I possess a 
copy, given to me by Captain Bobinson of the Engineers, opens 
with a line which I read without much hesitation as follows. 
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