JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I.-HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
Extra-Number 2.—1899. 
Memoir on Maps illustrating the Ancient Geography of Kasmir .— 
By M. A. Stein, Ph.D. 
CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
1. The maps accompanying this memoir are primarily intended 
to show the results which a detailed study of 
Ancient topography Kalhana’s RajataranginI has furnished re¬ 
in Kasmir Chronicle. , , • , „ _ , . 
garding the early topography of Kasmir and 
the adjacent territories. From the first when engaged in preparing a 
critical edition of that text, 1 2 * * the earliest and most important of the 
Sanskrit Chronicles of Kasmir, I had realized that an exact identifica¬ 
tion of the very numerous old localities mentioned in it was indis¬ 
pensable for a correct understanding of the narrative. This conviction 
forced itself even more strongly upon me in the course of the labours I 
devoted to the preparation of the commentated translation of the work 
which is now passing through the press. 8 
1 Kalhana’s RajataranginI or Chronicle of the Kings of KaSmir , Bombay Educa¬ 
tion Society’s Press, 1892, pp. xx and 296, 4to. 
2 To be published, with a Historical Introduction, by Messrs, A, Constable and 
Co,, London, in two volumes, 4to. 
J. I. 1 
