Download or read book Coorg Inscriptions, (Revised Edition), Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by B. Lewis Rice and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Coorg Inscriptions, (Revised Edition), Vol. 1 Following on my decipherment and publication of the Mercara plates in 1872, I discovered the Ganga inscriptions Nos. 4 and 5, and some copies, mostly imperfect, of various inscriptions in Coorg were furnished to me by Government in the time of Colonel Hill with a view to their being translated. But owing to all my spare time being taken up with numerous other important engagements and absence on duty in Calcutta, it was not till 1886 that the first edition of this work was issued. Though the light thus thrown upon the early history of the country was valuable as far as it went, I could not but regret, when recently called upon to compile the Gazetteer of Coorg for the new Imperial Gazetteer of India, the absence of fuller and more satisfactory information on the subject. Under the conviction that something additional might probably be found in the way of epigraphic records, I deputed two of my Archaeologieal Assistants, with the approval of the Commissioner (Mr. Lionel Davidson), to make inquiries. The result fully justified my expectation. For copies of a number of inscriptions previously unknown were obtained, which enabled the filling up of the blanks hitherto existing in the past history. These were published as supplements to the Tumkur and Bangalore volumes (xii and ix) of my Epigraphia Carnatica. Four more have now been added of which notice was received from Mr, L. T. Harris. But the Government of India having been pleased, on the application of the Chief Commissioner, the Hon'ble Mr. S M. Fraser, to sanction the issue of a revised edition of the work, brought up to date, the opportunity has been taken of collecting all belonging to Coorg, now more than trebled in number, into one volume in this edition, and publishing them on the same plan as in the remaining volumes of the series, of which this forms the first. For the present edition I have received much assistance from the impressions procured for me by Rao Sahib Krishna Sastri, Assistant Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.