Showing 8971 results

A Description of the Nasik Caves, originally written in pencil by A.A. West on the 16th September 1861 on site, and inked over some years later.

Bernhard Dorn's, 'Description of the Celestial Globe belonging to Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., K.L.S. &c., &c., deposited in the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'. This is an offprint of the article published in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society 1830, Volume II. The offprint contains two sketches on its inner front cover. With it is also a sheet of paper with Arabic script in ink and English annotations in pencil. There is also a letter from David [ ], Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to send the offprint and ask if the whereabouts of the globe is known, dated 1 November 2001.

A paper containing detailed descriptions of the Caves in the Satara Districts. The paper was 'Communicated by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, Honorary President of the Society', presumably the Asiatic Society of Bombay.

Descriptions, plans and drawings from some of the Kanheri Topes These were also published in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 10th October 1861. These are:

• A draft descriptive paper.
• Plan and section of a Structural Tope.
• Unfinished duplicate of plan and section.
• Note of angles and dimensions.
• Plan and elevation of a small tope.
• Plan and elevation of capstone of small tope.
• Drawings of Sculptures of Structural Tope.
• Drawings of stones with inscriptions.
• Tracings of some of the drawings.

A description of sculptured stones built into a small square temple about 100 yards east of "Travellers Bungalow at Patas on Sholapoor road'.

Short account in Hindi of the practices and habits of the rural Khangar (Khagar) caste, with a note in Elliot's hand on the reverse.

Description of the Chaitya Verandah, March 1866. Also contained are tracings of inscriptions copied by E.W. West. Please note that this in page 3-4 of the folder.

A description of the caves to the north of Nasik, written on 19 March 1866.

Description - proof copy with handwritten annotations. Identified as Sample page.

Des Rätsels Lösung? by Ulrich Unger. Draft of article published in 好古 Hao-ku Sinologische Rundbriefe, Nr. 23.