\ N LECTURES ON THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF INDIA 1918|f)e ^ecfitres,§armic^acl LECTURES ON THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF INDIA ON THE PERIOD FROM 650 TO 325 B.C. Delivered in 1918February, BY D. R. BHANDARKAR, M.A., F.A.S.B., CARUICHAEL PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE CALCUTTA UNITERSITY PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA 1919 HKINTED BY ATULCHANDRA BHATTACHARYYA \T TUi CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY SKNATKPkESB, CALCUTTAH0U81":, ASUTOSH MOOKERJEE SARASVATI To ASUTOSHSIR MOOKERJEE, SARASVATI, Sambuddhagama-ChakravartiSastra-Vachaspati, his ideals,who, loftyby and unfailing vigilance,far-reaching foresight, the rankCalcutta toelevated thehas University a and researchof University,teaching inone of its kind India,the only unstinted and discriminatehisand who, by and encouragement,liberality himto lookled votaries of uponhas learning of the age,as the VIKRAMADITYA present LecturesThese the Authordedicatedare by and reverence.admirationofin token profound PREFACE IThis book contains the lectures which delivered as Carmichael Professor of the Calcutta in 1918. When I cameUniversity February, here to hold the I was told that I was tochair, deliver four lectures some researchembodying work. If I were to con-lectures,my thought, tain but new couldwork,nothing original they be delivered to a few advanced students ofonly the Ancient Indian and wouldHistory hardly be understood the in onby If,people general.
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