Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1894

It is only to be conjectured that the fort evidently an eartwork was demolished by the British troops during our occupation of the island from 1840 to 1846; while we held the island as a guarantee for the fulfilment of the stipulations of the Treaty and that the battalion of native troops from Bengal which formed part of our expedition which attacked the island in 1840 brought back with th [...] 1 of the theory that the orthography corresponds to the nettle] pronuciation of the language at the time of the invention of the alphabet. [...] 21 the work when published with its commentary will be of the highest value to all who inquire into the history of the art of writing and the study of religion and particularly to the student of Buddhism. [...] The learned priests of Burma 'believe that the writing of the golden book is in fact the last vestige of the ancient Pali character in which the sacred books of the Buddhists were written in very early times. [...] Prakrit continued to be the language of Magadha till the time of the Pala dynasty when the revival of the study of Sanskrit in Bengal first at Ganda and subsequently on the banks of the Bliagirathi formed the Bengali language which is indeed a mixture of Sanskrit and Prakrit.