Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1861

There are serious objections however to this reading of the date and the mosteimportant of them appears to be the fact that the ciphers used are identically the same as those found in Sanskrit inscriptions of the 1st century before Christ which necessitates our reading them from the left to right and thereby removes the possibility of the first two figures being of the same value.. [...] B. I feel disposed to take it for aiha "tight " which with the chiteiyasa after it would mean " on the 8th of the month of Chaitra." The first letter of the last word should according to modern Sanskrit be read chai for chaitra the month in which on the day of the full moon the moon is in the constellation chits but the no►-prolongation of the vowel is not positively objectionable. [...] In the position in which they appear in an oriental writing they are expected to represent either the name of the day of the week or the day of the moon's age. [...] If the facsimile in Thomas's Prinsep may be relied on and there is not the least doubt of its accuracy the y after the last two words and the t in the middle of the last are undoubted ; while the initial letter of the last word is very unlike an n. Next follow the words iya " this " khasthlamri shekhala siga (for sringa) " on the peak of the Iihasavamri hill" (sekhala for sekhara) and Ugamateg [...] If this be admitted the words of the first line put together would mean : " By this Gatriga the Ugamatega monastery on the peak of the Khasavamri Hill belonging to Ugamatega (or Vagamatega or Nagatnanega) the sw: of Samagu (or Pamagu) was made to hold the relic of Bhagavan Khasa." The first word of the second line is distinct enough ; but the letter following it is a puzzler ; it looks very un