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1 The reading nipadiy, "on foot" (ff. Col. III., 1. 72), in place of tyaipatiyii certain. 2 The traces of the last sign are not quite clear upon the rock, but are probably those of tfTT- T ne reading agarbayata, which is employed elsewhere in an active sense, is not possible. In agarbitd we have the passive form. 3 The copula utA does not occur here upon the rock. 4 The Old Persian for " tongue " is not izdva (Spiegel), nor hizuva (Weissbach), but harbana, from a rt. srbh, ff. sorbeo, {>orpeia, Lith. srelntl. Of the signs ^| J:f and -^ traces are preserved upon the rock ; the remaining signs are clear. 5 The word is restored from the traces in 1. 89. The sign ^~ is quite clear and yy- is fairly certain. The traces of the first sign appear to be those of ^"fy~ or ^|, of which the former gives ucsa as the word for " eye " in Old Persian ; cf. Sansk. aksa.  Phraortes was taken and brought unto me. I cut off his nose, and his ears, and his tongue, and I put out his eyes, and he was kept in fetters in my court, and all the people

73. raisayam nipadiy Fravartis agarbi[ta] anayata abiy mam ada- 74. msaify] uta naham uta gausa uta harbanam frajanam utasa- 75. iy [ucsa]m avajam duvarayamaiy basta adariy haruvasim k-