The Geographical Dictionary Of Ancient And Mediaeval India

A study on the words in this Dictionary will show that time has mutilated many original names almost out of recognition. The restoration of the altered derivatives to their genuine originals is not, however, an impossibility in view of the fact that most of the changes are found not to have taken place haphazardly.Ancient geography is an essential adjustment of history, and the usefulness of a compendium of such geographical information for a full and just appreciation of the latter hardly needs any mention, specially when times has mutilated or obscured the ancient names of places that usually figure in the historical narratives. Indian history, ancient or mediaeval, and the documents upon which it is principally based, are full of these names, and unless they are elucidated in a systematic way as far as possible, the path of the historian and, for the matter of that, of the ordinary readers of history, will continue uneasy for this difficulty alone.