Sir Charles Wilkins was an English typographer and scholar who co-founded The Asiatic Society. He is notable as the first translator of the Bhagavad Gita into English. He supervised Panchanan Karmakar to create one of the first Bengali typefaces. In 1788, Wilkins was elected a member of the Royal Society.
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![Decipherment of the Gopika Cave Inscription (6th century CE, Late Brahmi), with the original script in Late Brahmi, and proposed Devanagari line-by-line transliteration by Charles Wilkins in 1785.[9]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/5th_or_6th_century_Gopika_cave_inscription%2C_Sanskrit%2C_Shaktism%2C_Anantavarman%2C_Gupta_script_2.jpg/1280px-5th_or_6th_century_Gopika_cave_inscription%2C_Sanskrit%2C_Shaktism%2C_Anantavarman%2C_Gupta_script_2.jpg)
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Writers
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Lived 1749 to 1836 · aged 87
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