________________ 346 Homage to Vaisali PART VI4 "On every Id festivals to the poor ones of the school.........the donations for the said congregational mosque.. Inside the bowl, in a corner is inscribed a couplet composed by the scribe which denotes its date. The couplet is as follows : His Highness the Prince, may be Live the life Elias, Filled this stream with sugar syrup. So nicely composed the Verse of date. The humble scriber "the bowl of syrup". Inscribed by Jalaluddin Mohammed. It is more than likely that the bowl in Kabul was taken away from a large sized statue of the Buddha which was quite famous in its own period, APPENDIX I Extract from "Report of Tours in North and South Bihar in 1880-81 by Major-General A. Cunningham, C. S. I., C. 1. E." pp. 8-11 :-(Vide The Romantic History of Budha's Alms Bowl Supra). 4. The text on most of this part has been obliterated and cannot be read at all and the meaning of many of the sentences given here are only guess work.
