File BHH/1/23 - Letter from Thoby Prinsep to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 6 August 1835

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Letter from Thoby Prinsep to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 6 August 1835

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  • 6th Aug 1835 (Creation)

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Letter from Thoby Prinsep to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which thanks Hodgson for procuring and sending the complete body of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures (classics) of Kahgyur and Tangyur and also for the gifts to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The Hungarian scholar Csoma de Koros has been asked to translate and thereby make known the Buddhist texts. Princep asks how many copies of the Mahabdarata would the Raja of Nepal take for his temples and colleges. He discusses publication of this and other Manuscripts. Thoby Prinsep was the President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal at that time. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 6 August 1835.

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