meaning of Sanskrit phrase requested

[Subrahmanian R]

In a signboard of ASI (Archealogical Survey of India) I saw the following words, apparently the motto of ASI.
प्रल कीतिमपावृणु. I could not find these words in the web site of the ASI nor from dictionary or google. अपावृणु appears like 'to uncover' etc. I am eager to know the meaning of ASI's motto.
R Subrahmanian

[Arvind_Kolhatkar]

It is प्रत्नकीर्तिमपावृणु.  प्रत्न, according to MW, is 'ancient,old'.

[Subrahmanian R]

Thank you sir, Arvind. The script was not clear. tra looked like la. There could have been some mistake in my noting down also. R Subrahmanian

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[Hnbhat B.R.]

On 11-Mar-2016 7:30 am, "Subrahmanian R" <subrah...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thank you sir, Arvind. The script was not clear. tra looked like la. There could have been some mistake in my noting down also. R Subrahmanian
>

Like this again. There in Arvind's meassage, it pra-tna and not "tra" as you said again misread.

[Subrahmanian R]

Bhat Sir, Thank you for correcting me. I thought it was patra and felt it would be impudent on my part to point out to a scholar that you have typed pa as pra. Thank you once again. Now I understand that it is pratna.

R Subrahmanian

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[Hnbhat B.R.]

The above is my message. I  could find "pa" for "pra". I have not corrected. Please refer to my previous message and in that also it is "pra-tna".