Asiatic Papers Read Before the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The Game of ball-bat (chowgan-gui) among the Ancient Persians, as described in the Epic of Firdousi (journal, B. B. R. A. S., XVIII, pp. 39-46)

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"We trust that Mr. Modi will some day collect his numerous essays into a volume; they are worthy of preservation."

(Rev. Dr. L. C. Casartelli, Professor, St. Bede's College, Manchester, in the Babylonian and Oriental Record, Vol. VIII., No. 5, p. 72, April, 1896.)

In this volume, I collect, as recommended by Dr. Casartelli, those of my papers, that have been read before the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society, leaving the publication of the papers before the Anthropological and other societies, for some other occasion. Of all the papers read before the Society, two have been omitted from this volume, as they form a volume in themselves, and were published only last year, as a separate volume. I have added, as an appendix, two other papers, read in Paris in 1889 before the Asiatic Society of Paris and "l'Academie des Inscriptions et belle lettres."

It is the centenary of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, which is to be celebrated in the middle of January 1905, that has suggested to me the publication of these papers. I publish them here, as they - with the exception of two - were published, from time to time, in the Journals of the Society. The changes or modifications that are made are very few and far between.

I am very greatly indebted to the Society, especially to its excellent library - excellent in its treasures of old books. Were it not for these, I would not have been able to do even half of what I have done, in this volume.

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