Indian Epigraphy c18.7
Indian Epigraphy c18.7
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² Cf. ibid., XXXIV, Appendix, p. v, note 8. We have often emphasised on the difficult nature of epigraphical research so little understood in our country (ibid., Vol. XXXIV, p. 209, note 3). A mutilated record cannot be read all at once, and the reading of a damaged passage baffling the decipherer for fifty times may occur to him in his fiftyfirst attempt or may not occur to him but to someone else (*JAS*, Letters, Vol. XVII, 1951, p. 84).