REMARKS.

commandment, forbidding the sacrifice
of four-footed animals. The Vedas are
alluded to but not named, and con
demned as "mean, and false in their doc-
trine, and not to be obeyed." The scrip-
tures of the Munis (which must be the
Vedas) are spoken of as directing blood-
offerings and the sacrifice of animals.
Priests and priestesses, religious men
and religious women, amongst the
Buddhists, are commanded to obey the
edict, and bear it in their hearts.

These inscriptions relate to the well-
known sculptures at Mahamalaipur, and
are little more than names applied to the
figures in the sculptures. They are
described in the Transactions of the
Royal Asiatic Society.

P.S. In the body of my Notes, I omitted mention of some important facts contained in the above Analysis of Ancient Inscriptions; namely, that prior to the fourth century A.D., every inscription whatever is in the Pali language, and by Buddhists; and subsequently to that period, a rough Sanskrit makes its appearance, gradually refining into the polished Sanskrit of the tenth and eleventh centuries, the Buddhists themselves, FOR THE FIRST TIME, using the so-called Sanskrit. And every subsequent inscription of these religionists being in that language, the Pali disappearing from India; but being retained by the fugitive Buddhists in foreign countries; thus affording further ground for the presumption that the so-called Sanskrit gradually superseded and displaced the Pali. W. H. SYKES.