1893.] A. F. R. Hoernle — The Weber Manuscripts. 39 
stroke to the preceding atshara. This side-stroke is also used with 
final consonants, when they have no inherent vowel ; they are, then, 
attached to the preceding akshara by a side-stroke and written a little 
below the line, — a practice which is well-known in ancient Sanskrit 
writing, being used instead of the modern virdma. Thus in pra-pu-nta- 
rikli (No. Ill, 1) and pra-pu-nta-ri-kha (Nos. IV, 5 and VI, 4) we have 
an instance of the same consonant ( kh ) being written with and without 
the inherent vowel (a). 
Part IX of the Weber MSS. appears to me to belong, both with 
regard to characters and language, to the same class of writings as the 
Kashgar manuscript, published by Mr. Oldenburg. The latter, too, 
is not only written in what I have called the square variety of the 
Central Asian Nagari, but it also shows occasional Sanskrit words in- 
terspersed in the text. Thus we have brdhmanam in the 5th line of the 
reverse (syllables 7-9), and again, on the obverse, mahdkarum (Skr. 
mahdkara, a name of Buddha) in the 1st line (syllables 14-17), 
vajrerhnkusha (Skr. vajrdnkusa ) in the 4th line (syllables 10-13), and 
brahma in the 5th line (syllables 8 and 9). More doubtful are the 
following: reverse, line 3, bhrihgarehku (Wiring ardhka ?) and sdstrem 
(sdstra 7) , line 4 nervdnam (nirvdnam) ; obverse, line 1, enku (ahlca?), 
line 3, astrem ( astra ?), and further on klesa. Quite certain is the occur- 
rence of numerals. In the obverse, 2nd line, 74 023), 4th line 75 
in the reverse, 1st line, 77 022), 3rd line, 78 C%&), 5th line 
79 C^Lf). This order shows, that the pages are wrongly placed in Mr. 
Oldenburg’s plate. The lower part is really the obverse page of the 
leaf, and the upper part, the reverse. 
The following is my reading of the Kashgar MS., observing the 
proper sequence of the pages : — 
Obverse. 
1, pa . tsne kta shshe e-nku kha jri a kau ta chche — ma-ha-ka-rum 
she khai pe pe nya chche pe shpim nu — dha ryi, ykne yme ttse 
smo na shshe jni na na so [. — ] 
2, shshe yai nu stmau shna tkha lfie shshe pi su me rttse mra chne 
70 + 4 po ysi nna shslie tkhe ylai Sam kte ne stya ltse sai ttsa 
lka shshe nchS, nai sai rne Ichya shshe [ — . . .] 
3, syi shshem a-strem na 0 kte ttsa kha ldia rpo — kle-sa tma 
shshem chem lam tna su rem tspo nam lcshe iichai — dha lsko 
shshe chau khe ma vi trem sa . shshe iichai . [ — ] 
4, tma sa 70 + 5 nam kchyem ye tkhem tsa yai nu va-jrem-nku-sha 
rne no — ylai iiaih ktne khe shsa ka po sta khro chche te lki 
ne — krem tpe [ ] 
