The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.47

c30.47

Official records of public events were kept in every province by special officers, whose duty it was to register 'good and evil events, with calamities and fortunate occurrences'. Such records were, no doubt, consulted by the writers of the great historical inscriptions, but no specimen of them has survived.