Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. Extra Number 1899. Memoir on Map Illustrating the Ancient Geography of Kaśmīr

While considering the means for the execution of such maps I received in 'the autumn of 1896 the generous offer of the Asiatic Society of Bengal to bear the cost connected with their preparation on the understanding that the maps would be published also in the Society's Journal with a separate explanatory memoir. [...] WILSON who was the first European to study the Chronicle in the original published an abstract of the contents of the first six Books as early as 1825.1 Re seems to have fully realized the importance of an accurate and sober examination of the geographical questions connected with the narrative. [...] The chapter on the Kingdom of Kashmir "4 utilizes the evidence afforded by the Chinese sources and Alberfini and indicates correctly the old names of the petty hill states to the south and south-east of Kaimir (Rajapuri Vallapura Camp11 ElIffhardia). [...] There can be no doubt that D'Anville was right in recognizing its name in that of the region of Kairrrapta situated below the sources of the Bidaspes (Vitesta) and of the Snndabal (Candrabbaga) and of the Adia (Iravati)'.6 Ptolemy metions this territory correctly enough between that of the Daradrai or Dards on the Indus and Kylindrind or the land of the Knlindas on the. [...] Hilton Tsiang relates at length the legends how the Arhat Madhyintika had first spread the law of Buddha in the land ; how in the time of Atoka the five hundred Arhate had taken up their abode there ; and how finally under the great Kaniska king of Gandhara Kagmir had been the scene of the universal Council which fixed and expounded the Sacred Canon.