history of nepal. - Sanskrit Manuscripts Project, Cambridge

V1
PREFACE
I am not myself an Oriental scholar, and have had
nothing to do with the translation beyond revising it
for publication, and adding a few notes regarding the
customs and places melll.tioned. The work translated
is the V ansavali or Genealogical History of Nepal,
0
according to the Buddhist recension. The original
manuscript, written in Parbatiya with an admixture of
Sanskrit and N ewarr, is in the possession of Professor
Cowell. There is another redaction, or at all events a
similar work, recognised by the Gorkhas and Hindu
races of the country, copies of which are in the British
Museum and the University Library of Oambr1dge.
At the present time the orthography of Oriental
prope:r names is somewhat unsettled. In general,
throughout the History, the names have been written
as nearly as possible in the1r original form, the vowels
having the Itahan sounds. The different sounds of the
letters d, t, s and sh, in Sanskrit, have not been systema­
tically ind1cated by points or otherwise. The Munshi
often uses kh for sh, J for y, and b for v. In the names
of some well-known places, and in such familiar words as
Du1·bar, Jung, etc., the usual spelhng has been retained,
mor.e espeotally in the Introduction. Some names may
be found. spelled differently in dtfferent places, but this is
usually not owing to any mistake, but because the words
have inten onally been given as written in the original
manuscript