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VI The Zoroastrian Period of Indian History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

D. B. Spooner
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Ever since the exact site of Aśoka's classic capital was determined for us by the keenness and sagacity of Colonel Waddell, it has been a dream of the Government of India in the Archæological Department to subject the site of Pāṭaliputra to an examination commensurate with its importance. Colonel Waddell had, however, so abundantly demonstrated, in his trial excavations, the difficulty and costliness of extended operations here, that the dream had, until recently, appeared remote of realization. The munificence of Mr. Ratan Tata of Bombay has made the undertaking possible, and his offer of twenty thousand rupees a year, for an indefinite number of years, has enabled the Archæological Department to take up the work on a scale that would otherwise have been far beyond our resources.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , January 1915 , pp. 63 - 89
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1915

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