Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1903

A. W. Heyde the former of whom brought to bear the knowledge of the scholar; and the latter not only the knowledge of the scholar but a pratical knowledge of the spoken language based on many years' labours as a Missionary on the Western borders of Tibet. [...] Though as has been already said Jaschke represents the sum total of our knowledge of the Tibetan language up to the compilation of the present Dictionary and was the ground-work on which the compiler and revisers of the present Dictionary framed their work ther). [...] To sum up as a Dictionary of the literary language no praise is too great both for the labour and research of the compiler ; and for the care and sound judgment of the Revisers ; and the excellence of. [...] At the time of Buddha the river Ganges was the boundary between the two kingdoms of Vaisali and Magadha Vaisali being situated on the northern side of the river and Magadha on the southern. [...] There wore 350 Brahmans on the cast bank and 750 on the west bank of tbo river Ganges.* The former were designated as Barendras on account of their 'going the ihabitants of Barendrabhumi the present Rajsbethi division and the latter were called Rarhis owing to their being the inhabitants of Rarhbhumi the present Burdwan division and the western part of Murghidbad district.