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from Goverdun Cowl, who has been lately appointed One of the Pundits of the Court having long been a Pundit attendant on Sir Robert Chambers. On these two Pundits of the Court differing in Opinion the Court desired Mr. William Chambers Interpreter of the Court to take Opinions of other Pundits and Mr. Chambers did so before Sir William Jones returned to Town, and after Sir William Jones return’d, the Court desired him, who has applied to the study of the Shanscrit Language and has already acquired a great degree of knowledge in that Language, and has re’d several Books of Hindoo
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