[1] In April, 1783.
[2] He landed at Calcutta in September, 1783.
[3] In January, 1784.
[4] Delivered in February, 1785.
[5] In February, 1789.
[6] The works of sir William Jones, with the life of the author, by lord Teignmouth, in 13 vols. Vol. III. p. 110. 1807.
[7] I shall hereafter give some explanations upon this subject.
[8] There appears in the printed edition no positive ground for the opinion above expressed; we find, however, frequent repetitions of the same subject, such as are not likely to belong to the same author; we know, besides, that additions and interpolations are but too common in all Oriental manuscripts.
[9] The Persian text, with the translation of the first chapter, appeared in the two first numbers of the New Asiatic Miscellany. Calcutta, 1789. This English version was rendered into German by Dalberg, 1809.
[10] These translations are mentioned in the notes of the present version.