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Art. XIV.—Ten Ancient Inscriptions on Stone and Copper found on the Western side of India, and translated by William Henry Wathen, Esq. &C. &C. Secretary to Government, Bombay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2011

Extract

The object in collecting and translating the many inscriptions to be met with in India, is, as Mr. Wathen very justly observes in his letter to the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, to elucidate the history of India previous to the Muhammedan conquest. Of that history, but little is yet known: that little to the few only who have devoted the greater part of their lives to this research, and each of those few possessing perhaps a part only of that information which, if combined and moulded into a whole, might, at no distant day, supply this desideratum in our knowledge of the East, without which no accurate notion can be formed of the true character of ancient India, as to its modes of government, laws, and usages

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1835

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References

page 393 note 1 Mackenzie Collection, Introduction, cxiv.

page 394 note 1 Calcutta Quarterly Magazine and Review, Deo. 1824.

page 394 note 2 Mackenzie Collection, Introduction, cxv.

page 395 note 1 Mackenzie Collection, Introd. cxv.; see the same for the Kadamba Rájás, p. xcviii.

page 398 note 1 Asiatic Researches, vol. xvi. Inscriptions at Abu.

page 398 note 2 Briggs, 's Gerishta, i. 307, &c.Google Scholar