Dear Matthew,

I believe it reads as follows:

[siddham] namaḥ kalki [for kalkī?] vijayat [for vijayet?] ]kīrttaye ||

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Camillo

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From: Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei@uchicago.edu>
Sent: 09 January 2020 13:32
To: Nataliya Yanchevskaya <markandeia@gmail.com>; indology@list.indology.info
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] help with inscription

Thank you, Nataliya,

Your suggestion seems plausible to me on both paleographical and contextual grounds. Let’s see what others think. 

best,

Matthew 

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From: Nataliya Yanchevskaya <markandeia@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2020 1:49:39 PM
To: Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei@uchicago.edu>; indology@list.indology.info <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] help with inscription

Dear Matthew,

It seems that the first syllable with a ligature is -lki; the part after "vijaya" is probably "sa" (but "su" would make more sense – hard to see though).

The whole thing looks like: namaḥ kalki-vijaya-sukīrtaye ("sa" and "ta" are written almost like in Bengali, as well as "e" in "ye").

Is it possible in this case? 

Just my two cents, I hope a specialist in paleography will do better. 

Best wishes,

Nataliya

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 6:29 AM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear friends,

I am wondering if some of those who are better paleographers than I might help me to read this. It comes from a Tibetan manuscript and so may not make coherent sense, as it is a Tibetan attempt to write Sanskrit.

What I see is:

na maḥ ka? chche? vi ja ya bhā? [or tā?] pā dā ya//

The three syllables marked with interrogation are the ones that are giving me trouble. It is a line of homage addressed perhaps to a teacher named lha mthong lo tsA ba bshes gnyen rnam rgyal, whose proper name, in a calque back translation into Sanskrit, would be

mitra-vijaya. His title lha mthong lo tsA ba ("translator from Lha mthong") would not normally be put into Sanskrit, but there's no fixed rule that it should not. However, the identification is not certain and, in any case, Tibetan teachers typically had several variant names.

thanks in advance for your suggestions,

Matthew 

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago

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