TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



An "Essay on the Hindu History ofCashmir 



By HORACE HAYMAN WILSON, Esq. Sec. A. S. 



INTRODUCTION. 



THE only Sanscrit composition yet discovered, to-which the title of Histo^ 

 ry, can with any propriety be applied, is the Rdjd Turin gini, a history ofCash- 

 mir. This work was first introduced to the knowledge of the Mohammedans 

 by the learned minister of Acber, Aeulfazl, but the summary which he 

 has given of its contents, was taken as he informs us from a Persian trans- 

 lation of the Hindu original, prepared by order of Acber. The example 

 set by that liberal Monarch, introduced amongst his successors, and the 

 literary men of their reigns, a fashion of remodelliug, or retranslating the 

 same work, and continuing the History of the Province, to the periods at 

 which they wrote. 



