^{page 1310 note 1} Instead of sa[ra]k[e] the other texts have upāsahe, ‘a lay-worshipper’.

^{page 1310 note 2} See my Second Note, above, p. 145 f.

^{page 1310 note 3} Viz., as shown by M. Senart, the “terrestrial gods” (bhūdēva) or Brāhmaṇas.

^{page 1310 note 4} According to the thirteenth rock-edict these neighbours (antā) would be the Seleucidan king of Syria and other Greek kings in the west, and the Ghōḍas and Pāṇḍyas in the south. In connexion with this I may note that the word Taṁbapamṁnī in the second and thirteenth rockedicts seems to refer to the river Tāmraparṁī in the Tinnevelly District, and not to Ceylon: compare MrSmith, V. A., ZDMG., vol. 63, p. 211Google Scholar.

^{page 1311 note 1} i.e. the subject-matter or contents of Aśōka's address.

^{page 1311 note 2} Read perhaps lekhāpela[ve*] with Bühler, , Ind. Ant., vol. 22, p. 305Google Scholar.

^{page 1311 note 3} For uyañjana see DrThomas, , Ini. Ant., vol. 37 (1908), p. 22Google Scholar.

^{page 1311 note 4} DrVogel, (Ep. Ind., vol. 8, p. 171)Google Scholar has shown that vivāseti has the meaning of the simple verb, while the causative is vivāsāpeti.

^{page 1311 note 5} On the (redundant) word sata see Dr. Thomas, loc. cit., p. 521.