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The triangular headmarks indicate that the inscription might have
been engraved in the 5th cent.^
7 Below the ^tapa, in Brahmi: jrzyaazzfra h/zzkya, "the monk Sriyami-
tra".
The shape of the akyaras is consistent with a date in the 4th-5th
cent.
There are at least 105 engraved rocks in Helor Das West, bearing more
than 100 inscriptions (Brahml, Kharosthi, Sogdian) and animal drawings.
8 Brahml inscription: camziJrah/zaga, viz. Sanskrit ca7%?ra-&/z^ga, a
proper name in the nominative case (photo 5). The characteristic
feature of the inscription is the angular-shaped ga, allowing a 4th-
8th cent, date.^
9 On the same boulder, below and to the right side of the previous
inscription, in Brahml: /zanyaMaga (photo 6), probably a proper
name. /zarzya could be a Middle-Indie rendering of Sanskrit /zarya-,
"joy". Same date as no 8.
10 On a separate boulder, in Brahmi: ha^z'Aya or ha^z'Aya (photo 7).
ha^zkya is difficult to understand, hajz- could correspond to
Sanskrit ho<7/zz-(?).^
11 Below the previous inscription, in Brahmi: rama/zyya (photo 7).
Inscriptions 10 and 11, from their appearance, could have been
written by the same person, raaza/zyya, with the same contradictory
endings (nominative and genitive), can also be read in Dadam Das
(unpublished inscription). The triangular headmarks suggest a date
around the 5th cent. AD.
12 On a huge boulder illustrated on photo 9, in Brahmi: /vz/ ^azyava-
razayya, "of Sri Satyavarma" (photo 8).
8 DANI 1983: 70-72.
9 SANDER 1968: Tafel 9, i; DANI 1963: pi Xlla, 12.
10 FussMAN 1989: 461-464.
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been engraved in the 5th cent.^
7 Below the ^tapa, in Brahmi: jrzyaazzfra h/zzkya, "the monk Sriyami-
tra".
The shape of the akyaras is consistent with a date in the 4th-5th
cent.
There are at least 105 engraved rocks in Helor Das West, bearing more
than 100 inscriptions (Brahml, Kharosthi, Sogdian) and animal drawings.
8 Brahml inscription: camziJrah/zaga, viz. Sanskrit ca7%?ra-&/z^ga, a
proper name in the nominative case (photo 5). The characteristic
feature of the inscription is the angular-shaped ga, allowing a 4th-
8th cent, date.^
9 On the same boulder, below and to the right side of the previous
inscription, in Brahml: /zanyaMaga (photo 6), probably a proper
name. /zarzya could be a Middle-Indie rendering of Sanskrit /zarya-,
"joy". Same date as no 8.
10 On a separate boulder, in Brahmi: ha^z'Aya or ha^z'Aya (photo 7).
ha^zkya is difficult to understand, hajz- could correspond to
Sanskrit ho<7/zz-(?).^
11 Below the previous inscription, in Brahmi: rama/zyya (photo 7).
Inscriptions 10 and 11, from their appearance, could have been
written by the same person, raaza/zyya, with the same contradictory
endings (nominative and genitive), can also be read in Dadam Das
(unpublished inscription). The triangular headmarks suggest a date
around the 5th cent. AD.
12 On a huge boulder illustrated on photo 9, in Brahmi: /vz/ ^azyava-
razayya, "of Sri Satyavarma" (photo 8).
8 DANI 1983: 70-72.
9 SANDER 1968: Tafel 9, i; DANI 1963: pi Xlla, 12.
10 FussMAN 1989: 461-464.
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