JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
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Part I,—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &c. 
No. 1.—1903. 
The History of Nepal and surrounding Kingdoms ( 1000-1600 A.D.) 
compiled chiefly from MSS. lately discovered .— By Professor Cecil 
Bendall, M.A. ( University College , London ). Written as an His¬ 
torical Introduction to Pandit Haraprasad S'astri’s Catalogue of the 
Nepal Durbar Library. With, chronological Tables and a Plate 
(facsimiles of MSS.) 
The Catalogue to which the present Essay forms an introduction 
is the result of a joint expedition to Nepal in the cold weather of 
1898-99 originally suggested by me, and taken part in by myself and 
Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad S'astri, accompanied under the aus¬ 
pices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, by his assistant, Pandit Binoda- 
bihari Bhattacharyya. While co-operating with one another throughout, 
we arranged to divide generally our work so that the archaeological 1 
and historical part of the task should fall to myself, while the Pandits 
dealt with the literary portion. 
A great deal of our time was of course taken up by the examination 
of the Maharaja’s collection of MSS., which, as regards the antiquity 
of the documents, are surpassed by no Sanskrit Library known to exist. 
My own necessarily very hurried examination of this remarkable col- 
1 I hope to publish my inscriptions with my general Report. 
J. I. 1. 
