S.N. Sen in ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society’ (Vol. IV, 1962 Nos. 3 & 4). quoted in in Kiśora, K. (2016). Ayodhyā revisited.
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“Tieffenthaler, in his encyclopaedic efforts to give as full a description of India as possible, touched practically on all possible subjects such as chronology, religion, history, manners and customs, revenues, natural history, natural products and mineral resources, art, architecture, monuments, buildings, town planning, etc., and gave for provinces, sometimes even for districts and cantons, long and interesting lists of their past rulers.” (p. 84)

— S.N. Sen

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Joseph Tiefenthaler

About Joseph Tiefenthaler

Joseph Tiefenthaler (or Tieffenthaler or Tieffentaller) (27 August 1710 – 5 July 1785) was a Jesuit missionary and one of the earliest European geographers to write about India.