Complex sentence: Dubois's French manuscript was purchased for eight thousand rupees by Lord William Bentinck for the British East India Company in 1807; in 1816 an English translation was published, and of this edition about 1864 a curtailed reprint was issued.
Split into simpler sentences: Dubois's French manuscript was purchased for eight thousand rupees by Lord William Bentinck for the British East India Company in 1807. In 1816, an English translation was published, and about 1864, a curtailed reprint of this edition was issued.