1900.] A. F. R. Hoernle — Epigraphical Note on Palm-leaf, etc. 119 
is dead against the use of Corypha leaves in Orissa. Not a single 
Corypha manuscript in Oriya cliaracters has as yet been discovered. 
Let us uow turn to Western India. Here we have the caiefal 
catalogues prepared by Professors Kielliom, i’eterson and Bhandarkar. 
In his Report for 1880-81, Prof. Kielhorn describes 77 palm-leaf MSS. 
from Patan. Prof. Peterson in his 3rd Report for 1885-86, describes 
157 palm-leaf MSS. from Cambay (Nos. 181-338), and in his 6th Report 
for 1892-95 he describes 93 palm-leaf MSS. from Patan. Measurements, 
however, are only given of 69, J47 and 62 manuscripts respectively of 
the three sets. The total of measured manuscripts accordingly is 278. 
Among these there are ; 
(1) MSS. measuring If inches and more, 230 
(2) MSS. „ 1\ inches 38 
(3) MSS, „ less than 1| 10 
This statement includes both kinds of manuscripts, undated as well 
as dated ones, and, therefore, supplements the information given in 
Table HI. 
The first-placed manuscripts, of course, as shown by their width, 
must be Corypha ones ; so also; are in all probability, the 38 manuscripts 
of the width of \\ inches. More doubtful might seem the case of those 
ten which measure less than 1| inches. Among these there are 8 
manuscripts which are said to measure only If, 1|, or If inches, and 
two manuscripts which are said even to be only one inch wide.^^ Four 
of these 10 manuscripts, being dated, will be found included in Table 
III; viz., Nos. 10 ( 1" wide), 5 and 8 (If'Oi ^^d 89 (If"); and in 
connection with that Table it has been shown what little probability 
there is that any of these 10 manuscripts should be Borassus ones. 
As a matter of fact (I may add here), I have found by ocular exami- 
nation of Kielhorn’s No. 34 (or No. 35 in Table I) that among its leaves 
there are some wliich are only If inches wide, but which still are 
Corypha leaves : which circumstance shows that extreme narrowness of 
the leaves need not preclude their being Corypha. It may, therefore, be 
taken for certain that in Western India none but Corypha leaves 
were ever used for book-writing. 
We will now turn to the paper manuscripts. For Eastern India 
(Bengal, Behar and Orissa) the “Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts” afford 
a fair statistical text. I have classified all the dated paper MSS. which 
are enumerated in volumes I to X, according to centuries, down to 1850, 
in the subjoined Table VII, in which I have added similar information. 
These are Peterson^ Nos, 7, 63 (both one inch), Peterson^ No. 13, Kielhorn 
No. 40, PetersonS Nos. 50, 66 (all four, li") ; PetersonS Nos. 304, 305, 308 (all, U") ; 
PetersonS No. 216 (If"). 
