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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 2, p. 87.

I] EPIGRAPHY 87 versions that have been most recently edited, and of the results brought forward from them, would quickly teach the lines on which it is desirable to deal with the records so as to produce the uniformity of treatment that is requisite, and would inevitably awake an interest that would induce a steady desire to join in the work that we have in hand. But we hope, also, that others may be induced to co-operate, by examining more methodically and critically the subsidiary sources of information, and by bringing forward their results in such a way as to make them available for being easily worked in with the more special results derivable from the epigraphic records. The principal materials are the epigraphic records, the inscriptions. And a very brief study of some of them will suffice to show the specific importance of them, and to excite a desire to join in exploring them. But the subsidiary materials, also, are numerous and interesting. And anyone who will take any of them in hand systematically, with just enough knowledge of the results derived from the inscriptions to show the objects that require to be kept in view and the general lines of work that should be followed, can render assistance the value of which will be made clear enough when his results are put forward in an accessible form, even if it may not be fully realizable by him while he is actually at work. J. F. FLEET. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AR . =Asiatic Researches; vol. i (178) to vol. xx (I836-39). ASI .. =Reports of the Archaeological Survey of India; CUNNING- HAM'S Series, vol i (1871) to vol. xxiii (I887); general index by V. SMITE (1887). ASSI . = Reiorts of the Archaeological Survey of Southern India; vol. i (1887), The Buddhist Stupas of AmaravaLi and Jaggayya- peta, by BURGESS; vol. vi (1894), South-Indian Buddhist Antiquities, by REA. ASVI. - Reports of the Archaeological Survey of Western India; BURGESS'S Series, vol. i (1874) to vol. v (1883). B.ESIP =BURNELL, Elements of South Indian Palaeography; 2nd edition (i878). C.AGI =CUNNINGHAM, Ancient Geography of India, the Buddhist Period (1871). C.BT . -CUNNINGHAM, The Bhilsa Topes IS5).