ON INDIAN ANTIQUITIES, HISTORIC, NUMISMATIC, AND PALEOGRAPHIC, OF THE LATE JAMES PRINSEP, F.R.S., SECRETARY TO THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL; TO WHICH ARE ADDED HIS USEFUL TABLES, ILLUSTRATIVE OF INDIAN HISTORY, CHRONOLOGY, MODERN COINAGES, WEIGHTS, EDITED, WITH NOTES, AND ADDITIONAL MATTER, BY EDWARD THOMAS, LATE OF THE BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE; MEMBER OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETIES OF CALCUTTA, TO HORACE HAYMAN WILSON, M.A., F.R.S., BODEN PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ETC., ETC., THE EARLY COADJUTOR OF JAMES PRINSEP IN ORIENTAL RESEARCH, THIS COLLECTION OF THE ESSAYS OF HIS DECEASED FRIEND, IS DEDICATED, WITH PROFOUND RESPECT AND ESTEEM, BY THE EDITOR. |