Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c11.21

c11.21

¹⁴ On Rādhākānta, see Rosane Rocher, "The Career of Rādhākānta Tarkavāgīśa, an Eighteenth-Century Pandit in British Employ," JAOS 109, 1989, 627–33. In the early decades of Indology it was the standard and approved practice to enlist the assistance of *paṇḍitas* in interpreting Sanskrit inscriptions and other documents. These *paṇḍitas* were often, but by no means always, given due credit for their efforts in the publications of English authors, so that it is not always easy to fully evaluate the nominal authors' real contributions. It appears, however, that Wilkins deciphered his inscriptions without the aid of *paṇḍitas* (see Kejariwal, *The Asiatic Society*, 43).