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Kavi Raj Sliyamal Das —Antiquities at Nagan. 
[No 2, 
Yon will see from my transcription tliat it is not pure Sanskrit; but it 
differs from Pali and most Prakrits by having the letters ¥1 and while 
they have only g — 
The stone is evidently broken on both sides and I can make no 
sense of the first line except a, probably, man’s name Pdrasara. 
From lines 2 and 3 it would seem that a “ hall of worship ” was 
made to Sankarshana (Siva) and Vasudeva, with a wall or rampart 
(prakdra ). 
(1.) jt v t ^ t ? ?r ^ ^ 
(2.) W «TT H 31 ^ ^ 
(3.) ^ -stt tT *rr Tr *rr ^ * ^rr 
?— Sansk. Vataka Narayana, surrounding, sheltering.’ 1 
Mr. Bendall supposes Sankarsan to stand for Siva and correctly too, 
since the term is sometimes applied in this sense ; but generally it is 
used to signify Pal Deo , the elder brother of Krishna or Vdsucleo (son of 
Vasudeo). Thus we see that a hall of worship was made to BaVdeo and 
Vdsudeo, from which the inference may be drawn that they were regarded 
with veneration at that period, and that idol worship was in vogue 
among the Vedic people. 
Inscription II. 
Found on the river bank near Nagari, evidently broken on both 
sides, measuring 1 ft. x 8J in. and marking 8 letters of the same charac¬ 
ter as the preceding. See Plate I. They read 
<TT 
One letter ^ has been evidently defaced from the beginning, thus 
making (^) —«Tr = meaning “mercy to all creatures,” 
which was one of the formulae of the Jains. 
I also give a third inscription which is of modern date and records 
the making of the tank above referred to. 
[From a very good squeeze, subsequently sent by (ho Kavirtij, and 
from which Plato Vtt has been prepared, the fragments of the two 
inscriptions would seem to read thus : 
1 2 3 4 5 G 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 
I. * * wr ^ 3IT ^TT V % RI TT il f< V ^ nj ^ # # 
\J 
# * far Ji *rwjf*i**$ 
wit v fir y\ *r f\ jii ij <n «n k 
c 
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