PREFACE. 



The ground plan of a history of Eastern India from 800 to 1200 a.d. has already 

 been sketched out by Mahamahopadhyaya Hara Prasad Sastri in his short 

 introduction to Sandhyakaranandi's Ramacarita. At that time I intended to develop 

 it and add all the available material in a fresh article. This article was finished 

 in October iqn. It was revised by Dr. J. Ph. Vogel, Ph.D., then Officiating 

 Director General of Archaeology, and submitted to the Society. For various reasons, 

 the publication of this part of the Memoirs has been delayed, among which may be 

 mentioned the loss of several impressions of inscriptions. 



I have not been able to edit the inscriptions quoted in the body of this paper 

 to my satisfaction, on account of want of time and space. The readings quoted 

 are for the most part true readings. Pandit Binod Bihari Bidyabinod has helped me 

 considerably in deciphering them. The majority of the new records were read by 

 him, and the texts were then revised and modified by me. But in each case a 

 mechanical estampage has been reproduced so that a worthier scholar may re-edit it 

 from the plates. The historical information supplied by each record has been given 

 in the form of a summary in the body of the text. 



I am indebted to Mahamahopadhyaya Flara Prasad Sastri, CLE., Dr. J. Ph. 

 Vogel, Ph.D., Dr. D. B. Spooner, B.A., Ph.D., Prof. Jadu Nath Sarkar and Mr. K. P. 

 Jayaswal. B.A., Bar.-at-Law, for many suggestions. To my friend Mr. Surendra Nath 

 Kumar of the Imperial Library, Calcutta, I am indebted for translations of various 

 passages in French or German. Dr. F. W. Thomas, Ph.D., of the India Office 

 Library, and Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle kindly obtained for me photographs of the 

 historical colophones of manuscripts preserved in the Bodleian or the Royal Asiatic 

 Society's Library. Dr. Thomas obtained for me two impressions of votive inscriptions 

 of Mahendrapala in the British Museum. Mr. G. H. Tipper, M.A., F.G.S., then 

 Honorary General Secretary of the Society, very kindly obtained photographs of the 

 historical colophones of manuscripts preserved in the Cambridge University's Library 

 and the Bengal Asiatic Society's collections. In fact, without his aid it would have 

 been quite impossible for me to complete this work. 



Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, the 30th May, 1914. 



