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D.R. Bhandarkar Volume
1940
Summary
The first of these was The Nausari Copper-plate Charter of the Gujarat Relsktrahata Prince Karkka I dated 738 and the second: A Kushana stone-inscription and the question about the origin of the.gaka era. [...] In 1919 was published A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-Western Frontier Province based on the Census Reports for the Punjab of Sir Denzil Ibbetson and Sir Edward Maclagan and compiled by H. A. Rose of the Indian Civil Service. [...] It approaches much more in type many of the Roman mortars but the reduction in the amount of lime has been caused further than in these mortars with the probable result of the weakening of the cement.' The second surprise however came from excavations on the other site which was in the heart of Besnagar. [...] Nevertheless it cannot be denied that on no single old site such sensational discoveries were made as here such as the unearthing of a unique type of railing the find of a genuine piece of steel as ancient as c. 125 B. C. the discovery of the lime-mortar of the Mauryan period rivalling that of the Romans and the picking-up of firbricks showing that the Indians knew what fire-brick meant a [...] Bhandarkar had said in regard to the theories of the origin of kingship such as that of the social contract that of the king being an incarnation of the divine that of the king being the servant of the public and so forth and so on.
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