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Neun Mahaban-Inschriften — Entzifferung, Uebersetzung, Erklärung. By Dr.Georg Huth. (Veröffentlichungen aus dem Königlichen Museum für Völkerkunde.) (Berlin, 1901.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1902

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References

page 209 note 1 E.g. the inscription published in this Journal, 1898, p. 619.

page 210 note 1 How exceedingly difficult the task of decipherment would have been even with the aid of a clue of this kind may be seen at once by putting any English sentence continuously, without division of words, into a cipher composed partly of letters having their proper value and partly of signs representing the other letters used. In the following cipher, for instance, which represents a sentence in the present notice, ten letters appear with their proper value, while the other ten letters which occur are represented by dissimilar inverted letters :—