आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

(1799–1840) British official and amateur
Indologist. In 1837, Prinsep became the
first modern person to decipher the
Brahmi script, and was thus able to
translate the edicts of the Mauryan
emperor Ashoka (r. 269–32 B.C.E.).
Unfortunately, his career was cut short
by an early death, a pattern distressingly
familiar for colonial administrators in
British India. See also Maurya dynasty.
527
Prinsep, James