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by his identification of the Sandrocottus of Alexander's historians with the Chandragupta of Sanskrit literature; and its great epoch is ushered in by the decipherment of the long-forgotten alphabets of the ancient Indian inscriptions by James Prinsep in 1834. The first comprehensive summary of historical gains appeared in 1858, when Christian Lassen published the first volume of his *Indische Alterthumskunde*; and in recent years other summaries have been made by Dr Vincent Smith (*Early History of India*, 1st edn. 1904, 2nd edn. 1908, 3rd edn. 1914), by Dr L. D. Barnett (*Indian Antiquities*, 1913), and, on a smaller scale, by the editor of this volume (*Ancient India*, 1914).