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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. V.
3 . . . . . BODABIROMBAS Abhisitenal-cha
atana-Agacha-mahiyite 4 . . . . . .
pépitel (II)
TRANSLATION King Piyadasi, beloved of the gods, having been anointed fourteen years, ingreased for the second time the stops of Buddha Konakamans [1]; and having been anointed [twenty years), he came himself and worshipped; [and] he caused (& stone piller to be erected].
REMARK. 1. With the form Kondkamana for PAli Könagamang compare Maka (Kalsi edict xiii. 2, 1. 7) and Maka (Shahbâzgarhi edict xiii. 1. 10) for the Greek Magas, as well as Antekind (Girnar ed. xii, 1. 8), Athtikini (Shahbazgarhi ed. xüi. 1. 10) and Aihtekine (Kälsi ed. xiii. 2, 1. 7) for the Greek Antigones. .
No. 2.- YEKKERI ROCK INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF PULIKESIN II.
BY J. F. FLEET, PE.D., C.I.E. Yekkeri is a village about four miles towards the north by east from Saundatti, the chief town of the Parasgad taluka of the Belgaum district. The record is engraved on a rook in a glen, somewhere about a mile or a mile and a half to the north-east of the village. The existence of it was brought to my notice in December, 1894, by Venkangauda bin Yollapaganda, of the neighbouring village of Hali. I edit it from ink-impressions which Dr. Haltesch was kind enough to obtain for me.
The whole writing covers an area about 7' 2" broad by 3' 11' high. About two feet of the breadth, however, are occupied by the benedictive and imprecatory verses, which stand on the proper right of the essential part of the record : to avoid reducing the scale of the collotype too far, it has not been thought necessary to include them in the Plate; but the mi of bhams, line 13, is discernible just before the commencement of line 3; and the marks below it represent, imperfectly, parts of the word phalan, line 14.-The characters are of the regular type, for the locality, of the period to which the record refers itself, vis. the first half of the seventh century A.D.; and they are boldly formed and well out. They include numerical symbols in lines 5, 7, 8. The size of the ordinary letters ranges from "
Restore ofaativaadbhisitons. At the beginning of the lines remnant of the long ( seems to be visible, and so is a portion of the fourth letter.
Restere wildthabo-cha weapdpite, according to the Paderin edict.
In line 5 we have, for four, the symbol which Pandit Bhagwanlo! Indraji has given in Ind. Ast. Vol. VI. p. 4, col. 4, from the Gupta recorda; but it seems pronounceable w ples or pkra rather than ska - In the Mme line we have for "Ave,' the symbol which the Paodit has given in col. 6 of his Table (see the central one of the three forms) from the Valabbt platos; be admitted that it looks like Nd (n it does here), but held that it is only corruption of Ind. It must be noted that, in the collotype pablished herewith, the symbol has not come out well from the ink-impression-(on the whole, tbe better of the two) which I rolected for reproduction; tbe lower side-stroke, to the right from the bottom part of the akahara, shows only falatly in the other impression, the ako hara is quite clear and unmistakable, and there it distinctly rondo me w.- In the same line, again, we have, for alght,' a symbol wbiob, In the side-stroke to the left from the top of the akshara, in the down-stroke on the right from the end of the top-stroke, and in the line across the centre of the body of the abshare, differs good deal from any of the forma given by the Pandit and interpreted by him mars or And.In line 7 we have, for • Afty,' symbol from which the symbol given by the Pandit in col. 6 of bla Table, from the Valabhl plates, may very easily bave been derived by corruption. But, whereas he held that his symbol is a corrupted form of the anandrika, turned the wrong way, we seem to bave bere clearly the akılara ba. And I notice that Mr. Bendell
