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HISTORY.

HISTORY OF NEPAL,

translated by MUNSHI SHEW SHUNKER SINGH and PANDit Shrí GUNANAND; edited with an Introductory Sketch of the Country and People by Dr D. WRIGHT, late Residency Surgeon at Kathmānḍū, and with facsimiles of native drawings, and portraits of Sir JUNG BAHADUR, the KING OF NEPAL, &c.

"The Cambridge University Press have done well in publishing this work. Such translations are valuable not only to the historian but also to the ethnologist ;......Dr Wright's Introduction is based on personal inquiry and observation, is written intelligently and candidly, and adds much to the value of the volume. The coloured lithographic plates are interesting."-Nature.

The history has appeared at a very opportune moment...The volume...is beautifully printed, and supplied with portraits of Sir Jung Bahadoor and others, and with excellent coloured sketches illustrating Nepaulese architecture and religion."-Examiner.

"In pleasing contrast with the native history are the five introductory chapters contributed by Dr Wright himself, who saw as much of Nepal during his ten years' sojourn as the strict rules enforced against foreigners even by Jung Bahadur would let him see." Indian Mail.

"Von nicht geringem Werthe dagegen sind die Beigaben, welche Wright als 'Appendix' hinter der history' folgen lässt, Aufzählungen nämlich der in Nepâl üblichen MusikInstrumente, Ackergeräthe, Münzen, Ge

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wichte, Zeittheilung, sodann ein kurzes Vocabular in Parbatiyâ und Newârî, einige Newâri songs mit Interlinear-Uebersetzung, eine Königsliste, und, last not least, ein Verzeichniss der von ihm mitgebrachten Sanskrit-Mss., welche jetzt in der Universitäts-Bibliothek in Cambridge deponirt sind.' -A. WEBER, Literaturzeitung, Jahrgang 1877, Nr. 26.

"This native history is a most interesting contribution to our knowledge of Nepaul; and the accuracy of the translation is certified by the fact of its having been made by the Meer Moonshee attached to the British Residency at Khatmandoo, who has lived in Nepaul for nearly 30 years, assisted by the Pundit Shree Gunanund, who is a native of Nepaul, and whose ancestors have for many generations been the compilers of this history." "-Times.

"On trouve le portrait et la généalogie de Sir Jang Bahadur dans l'excellent ouvrage que vient de publier Mr Daniel Wright,,..... sous le titre de History of Nepal, translated from the Parbatiya, etc.""-M. GARCIN DE TASSY In La Langue et la Littérature Hindoustanies in 1877. Paris, 1878.

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