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INTRODUCTORY. 
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report on liis Kasmir tour lucidly set forth the work that remained to be 
done in connection with the Rajataranginl. 1 He had there shown that 
for a full comprehension of its contents a minute study of the ancient 
geography of Kasmir was indispensable. He was the first to call atten¬ 
tion to the ample materials which are offered for such a study by the 
later Sanskrit Chronicles, the Nilamatapurana and other Kasmirian 
texts. But he also realized that “ some of the geographical questions 
would probably require a final re-examination in Kasmir.” 
Other labors prevented my lamented master from undertaking this 
task himself. But the most graphic and accurate notices which his 
Report gives of those sites in the Valley he had himself been able to 
visit, 2 prove convincingly — if any proof were needed — that no impor¬ 
tant point connected with the old topography of the country could easily 
have escaped his attention. The particular identifications first made 
by Prof. Biihler will be duly mentioned in their proper places. It was 
a source of true satisfaction to me that I was able during my last year’s 
visit to Europe to present personally the departed with the first clean 
copies of the maps now published. That the results recorded in them 
were such as obtained his approval, will always appear to me the 
highest reward for the labour their preparation and the preceding re¬ 
searches had cost me. 
1 See Report on a tour in search of Sanskrit manuscripts made in Kashmir , 
Bombay, 1877, p. 58. 
2 See loc. cit.y pp. 4-18. 
