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३० कहाऊँ स्तम्भ एवं क्षेत्रीय पुरातत्व की खोज
Appendix - 2 The journal of the Asiatic society of Bengal, Vol.7, 1838
page 33,34,36,37,38,39, plate 1. IV - Facsimiles of Ancient Inscriptions, Confinued.
Notice of antiquities discovered in the eastern division of Gorakhpur; with a copy of an inscription on a stone pillar, &c. By D. LISTON, Esq.
I have the pleasure of sending you a copy of an inscription on a pillar which stands close by the village of Kuhaon in tuppah Myle, pergunnah Selampoor Mujomlee, zillah Gorakhpur. The copy I believe to be tolerably correct, it was first transcribed by a friend and myself on the spot; a clean copy of it was then made at leisure, taken back and compared letter by letter with the original.
The people of the village had no tradition to offer regarding the erection of the column, but it was generally agreed by them and others that no one who had made the attempt had been able to decipher the character, though it had occasionally been visited by natives of learning who had essayed the task.
The pillar is of very compact sandstone and the letters deeply and clearly carved. Should it be my lot to return to the purgunnah, I shall be most happy, if you intimate that the inscription contains matter of importance, to endeavour to take an accurate impression of it, so that it may be submitted to the examination of those who have studied the characters of such inscriptions, exactly as it appears on the column.
The base of the pillar to the height of four and half feet is a square of one foot ten inches. At 4-6 it is wrought into an octagonal form, and it is on the three northern faces of this
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