गुप्त अभिलेख संग्रह (जे. एफ. फ्लीट - गुप्त सम्राटों एवं परवर्ती नरेशों के ऐतिहासिक पाषाण व ताम्रलेख)

282 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
size of the letters is about 1/16". The characters belong to the northern class of alpha-
bets; and are of almost precisely the same type as those of the Bôdh-Gayâ image
inscription of Mahânâman, No. 72 above, page 278, Plate xli B. But, as contrasted
with the form in Mahânâman's inscription of the year 269, No 71 above, page 274, Plate
xli A., we have to notice that, in conjunction with a following y, the r is here formed above
the line, and the y is doubled.—The language is Sanskrit; and the inscription is in
prose.—In respect of orthography, the only point that calls for notice is the doubling
of t, in conjunction with a following r, in attra, line 1.
The inscription does not refer itself to the reign of any king, and is not dated; but,
on palæographical grounds, it may be allotted roughly to the sixth century A.D. It is
a Buddhist inscription; and the object of it is to record the grant, by two Śâkya mendi-
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