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haps fail, but if we do, no harm will be done, and we can then return 
to our appointments. 
I do not remember whether I have ever told you that an immense 
quantity of the villainous stuff called brick tea is sent from Lhassa 
to the Gurtokh authorities, which is forcibly sold to the people, who 
are obliged to take much more even than they can consume them¬ 
selves ; and our Bhootiah traders find that they are obliged to take 
the surplus in exchange for their wares. 
Until this system is stopped, there will be never any great demand 
for our hill tea. 
This should be one of our objects if we go to Lhassa.” 
The following is a communication from E. Thomas, Esq. to the 
President, dated London, 28th December, 1862. 
I send you by this mail an elaborate facsimile of the Taxila 
Inscription, alluded to in my note p. 108, Journal It. A. S. Yol. XX. 
a copy of which is enclosed.* 
I think you may rely upon this as a faithful copyf and accept it 
as fit to be placed, at once, in the hands of your lithographer. The 
pencil lines, over which I have written in ink, formed the original 
transcript from the copper plate, made, through the medium of a 
* “ Professor Dowson has succeeded in mastering the inscription on a steatite 
funereal vase, preserved in the Peshawar Museum, which proves to refer to the 
erection of a tope by the Brothers GKhilena and Siha-rachhitena. And finally 
Mr. Norris, in concert with Mr. Dowson, is engaged on a most promising in¬ 
scription from the neighbourhood of Hussun Abdal, near Rawul Pindee in the 
Punjab, presented to the R. A. S. by A. A. Roberts, Esq., C. S. regarding which, 
Professor Dowson has obligingly communicated to me the following notice: 
“ The plate, which is fourteen inches long by three and a half broad, is broken 
in the middle, where many of the letters are lost; a connected reading of the 
whole cannot, therefore, be hoped for. The King’s name is Chhtrapa°Siliafco 
Kusulutco; these words are followed by nama , so there can be no doubt that 
they form the name. After the name there are some letters obliterated and 
then follow the words Takhasilaye nagare utarena prachu deso, which probably 
mean “ the country north-east of Taxila.” The words Chhatrapa lialco are 
stamped as an endorsement on the back of the plate.” I myself have not had 
an opportunity of examining this inscription, but I should be inclined, as a 
first conjecture, to identify the KusuluJco with some of the Kozola Kadapes 
family. The figured date on the plate is 33, which is followed by the 
words Maharaysa mahata , cfc. (Prinsep’s Essays ii. 202, 203 )” 
f The words Patipasa Chatra pa Lialco are reversed in the plate as they are 
in the original, being indorsed on the back of the plate and shewing through 
reversed. 
