________________ Alams-Bowl of Buddha from Vaisali 343 inscriptions were of early date, as I remember reading the name of Subuktugin, and I think also that of Mahmud". The reproduction of Cunningham's sketch of the bowl, prepared from a photograph, acconpanies this article (Plate I). I pursued this matter of getting hold of the text of the inscriptions on the bowl. Through the assistance of Shrimati Lakshmi N. Menon (then Deputy Minister, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India) and Shri S. N. Haksar (then Indian Ambassador to Government of Afghanistan), I could get a copy of the inscriptions recorded on the bowl. The text of the inscription, thus procured, is reproduced in Appendix II. A translation, made in Kabul, is given below "The best of blessings and benedictions be on him...... The opportunity for the glorification of the kingdom was obtained during these auspicious days...... most virtuous......the great and esteemed report......chiyalrous...... PART I ...... The creator Khwaja Ayyub Ansari, may God bless him, after the said honourable bequeather......from the reveren ed, in whose hands the authority rests .....constructed it and bequeathed it for the descendents 80 that they may be the custodian (administrator)......and supervisor ...... He bequeathed it for the Mausoleum and for the school founded by the father of the bequeather and is situated near the said school......the act of bequeathing deemed necessary .... situation in the Province of Kandahar kpown as Sang-e-Hessar at a place which was his property and had purchased it through a legal deed from the descendents of the late reverend Amir Nizamuddin Sultan servant of Maghfoor Saieed Shah Rukh Mirza for 1500......Mithqall of pure coined silver. The entire village situated in the said province and known as Deh Roh Abad...... the said bequeather ...... lawful sale......mithqal of coined silver fron lawful money...... some of them ... and the whole of Khajgak). PART II ......from this canal, the said bequeather took water to that place and reopened it. And the entire of (Malkabah) was lawfully purchased by the said bequeather which was the property of Amir Jalaluddin Feroz Shah, the servant of the Threshold of the said Hazrat Sultan-e-Maghfoor 1. 1 Mithgal=5 grams.
