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PREFACE.
sufficient guarantee for their notes and versions To all of them my best thanks are due for the care and attention they have given to the work submitted to them; and specially to Dr. E. Hultzsch, who has givenun flagging aid in revising the proofs for the press. Dr. Führer, also, has contributed many most valuable-impressions for translation, including the whole of the Juina inscriptions from Mathura.
The paper by Professor H. Jacobi, Ph.D., of Bonn University, on the computation of Hindu dates, is one of special and permanent value to all students of Indian chronology.
The Government of India has sanctioned the continuance of the work in a second volume, and much progress has already been made in preparing the materials for it. It will contain a revised edition, with facsimiles, of the great inscriptions of Asoka by Professor G. Bühler, who will also supply other papers on further Jaina inscriptions from Mathurâ, on the Sanchi inscriptions, etc. At my request the Government of India has kindly secured an impression of the Badal pillar inscription, and through the favour of Colonel S. S. Jacob, C.L.E., of Jaypur, estampages of the Harsha inscription have been obtained, which, together with others, have been edited by Professor F. Kiel. horn. Then Muhammadan inscriptions have hitherto been overlooked or but sparingly edited ; and it is intended to give them a place in the next volume, for which two series of considerable length have been already prepared.
JAS. BURGESS.
22, SETON PLACE, EDINBURGH
5th October 1891.
