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GB 891 QW-QW/6-QW/6/1-QW/6/1/36
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Letter from N.P. Chakravarti to Quaritch Wales, 28 June 1939
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- 28th Jun 1939 (Creation)
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Letter from Niranjan Prasad Chakravarti, Government Epigraphist for India, to Quaritch Wales concerning the translation of the inscriptions on the metal discs. The script of the records is South Indian and the language is Sanskrit. He adds that the question for further study is whether these discs were put in the foundation in the same way as the stone tablet or if they belonged to images to which they might have been attached as labels, Typed letter, 2 sides, 2 pages, dated 28 June 1939.
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- Niranjan Prasad Chakravarti (Subject)