A Collection of Prakrit and Sanskrit Inscriptions

in search of inscriptions illustrative in the first place of the history of the Gohel chiefs from whoHis Highness traces his descent but also of the more general history of the country. [...] It is in order to make the work of the Department and the treasures of this collection accessible to a wider circle of students and to furnish them with a convenient hand-book of material for their investigation that His Highness has now most generously sanctioned the publication of the following volume. [...] If Agoka's words suggested to us that the lessons of kindiness and tolertion he preaches have unfortunately their present importance for the land he ruled over the record of the double breaking and the double mending of the dam of the Lake Beautiful near Junaghar is capable also of a practical appliction. [...] We have a contemporary account of the glories of Vala or Valabhi in the diary of Hiouen Tsiang a Chinese Buddhist who in the course of a journey to the chief centres of his faith in India did not omit what was then one of the greatest and more flourishing of these. [...] As has been said not a vestige of the former greatness of the city remains ; while the empire of which it was the head has sunk to the narrow limits of a Third Class" State of Kattywar.