Excerpt from Corpus Inscriptionum Bhavnagari: Being a Selection of Arabic and Persian Inscriptions
For some years past His Highness Maharaj Sir Takhtsinghji, G.C. S.I., of Bhavnagar, having felt the want of an organized agency to collect materials for the past history of Bhavnagar, sanctioned in A.D. 1881 the establishment of a Department for an Archaeological and Antiquarian Survey the first of its kind started in Kathiawad - at the suggestion of Ihe late Colonel J.W. Watson, then President of the Rajasthanic Court in Kathiawad, who was well-known for his tastes in these researches; who possessed an excellent knowledge of Persian; and who by his keen and constant interest in the progress of this work rendered most valuable assistance, which has put this Department under his everlasting obligation. Since A.D, 1882 Pandits have been sent on exploring tours in different parts of Kathiawad, Grujarat, Marwar, Mewar, c., and the result of the researches carried on during the last eight years has been the accumulation of a pretty extensive stock of old and (some of them) unique coins, and fac-similes of stone and copper-plate inscriptions, relating not merely to the Gobel chiefs of the past, for whose past history the Department was first started, but to other rulers and places. General Sir A. Cunningham, late Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, one of the greatest Indian Archaeologists, has expressed as his opinion that these inscriptions are the most certain and the most trustworthy authority for determining the dates of Indian monuments. Besides it is a well-known fact that researches in Indian Archaeology and Epigraphy have received a fresh stimulus of late. It was, therefore, decided at the desire of His Highness that the best way to turn the collection to account for the use of scholars and antiquarians would be to publish a selection of the inscriptions in parts from time to time.
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