The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c7.s1.56

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The fourth class of materials for, or sources of, early Indian history, namely, contemporary, or nearly contemporary, native literature of an historical kind, is of limited extent, comprising, in addition to the Kashmīr chronicle (*ante*, p. 10), and local annals of Nepāl and Assam, a few works in Sanskrit and Prākrit, with certain poems in Tamil. None of these works is pure history; they are all of a romantic character, and present the facts with much embellishment.¹