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The total number of written sheets included in the volume is 185. 

 Of these the first ten are not marked, the numbering commencing 

 with the eleventh. The first page bears date the 12th June, 1812, and 

 contains a number of chronological notes which were written long after 

 the text had been commenced. The upper portion of the second page is 

 dated 24th February, 1812, and the lower portion 29th May, 1812, the 

 third page has 26th May, 1811. The fourth and the fifth pages have no 

 dates, but the 6th is dated 12th June, 1811, and all the three, I imagine, 

 were written on the last mentioned day. These also contain notes 

 by the translator, with references to his text and marginal Persian 

 figures, probably to indicate the pages of some Persian original. The 

 7th page has for its heading the words " General Index to the Maha- 

 bharata, made by Vasant Rae Kaet, in the 31st year of Aurangzeb. 

 The pages answer to Dr. Wilkin's great Persian folio." 



The Index commences with the churning of the ocean as described 

 in the i&li Parva of the Mahabharata with a reference, in Persian 

 figures, for details, to page 17 of Vasant Rae's text, and in English 

 figures to the translator's folio 145. The Index is then carried on 

 consecutively. The English translator commenced this part of his 

 work on the 8th May, 1811, and writing daily from 1 to 3 pages, 

 completed it on the 28th of May of that year, i. e. in 20 days, the last 

 reference being to p. 706 of the Persian text. This Index covers 17 

 folios. Following it, there are a number of blank leaves, after which is 

 inserted a small map of India printed for the " East India Register," 

 without any tracing or mark of any kind to shew that the translator 

 had worked on it in any way to illustrate his text. 



Facing the map is the title page, bearing in large letters the 

 words " Extracts, Translations, &c. from the Mahabharat, Persian 

 copy." The extracts cover 175 sheets of paper, written in a cramp- 

 ed, small hand, in double columns. The lines are very close to each 

 other, and very much disfigured by blottings, corrections and inter- 

 • lineations ; which, aided by the discoloration and decomposition of the 

 ■ ink and paper in many places, render the whole very difficult to read. 

 The proper names and important Indian words are, however, written 



