STEIN MARC AUREL Sir Kalhanas Rajataragini or Chronicle of

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STEIN, MARC AUREL, Sir, editor. Kalhana's Rajatarangini or Chronicle of the Kings of Kashmir . . . Vol. I. Sanskrit Text with Critical Notes [all published]. Lithographed frontispiece. [2], xix, [1], 296 pages, including half-title. Folio, 371x275 mm, original cloth, spine ends chipped, cover corners bumped, front hinge split; contents clean. Bombay: Education Society's Press, 1892

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first edition of Stein's first book, the first critical edition of the Rajatarangini, a fundamental source for the history and archaeology of Kashmir. Sarton II, 261-62. with a signed inscription from stein to the Sanskrit scholar and India Office librarian Charles Henry Tawney, dated London, 1893.