The book is intended to provide the student of philogy with a
convenient handbook of early prakrit of the Asokan edicts to facilitate the
study of the
Asokan dialects by them.Asoka text and glossary in two volumes by Alfred C.
Woolner, who taught
Sanskrit and Prakrit in 1920 in Punjab, was first published in 1924 before the
publication
of Dr. E. Hultzsch?s epoch making studies in Asokan edicts included in Corpus
Inscriptionum Indicarum.Woolner?s work has the advantage over Hultzsch?s work as
it
can be used as a convenient handbook of early Prakrit. The purpose of Woller was
to place
the Text and Glossary of