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A. F. R. Hoernle — The Weber Manuscripts. 
[No. 1, 
The reverse reads as follows : — 
1, [pan«iM]chchisliyati, ime clia . bhadante bliaga- 
2, ham=anubhavena sa sagar-anta-prithivim=anuvicha- 
3, tpalo naro, kumbha-karno maha-kumbha-karno, ari, kdrl, 
ka- 
4, le, pelole, &ye, taye, ikshori, kune kunike, yas=cha me 
5, . . sukla-pakshasya pratipadam=upadayakrishna-paksho va snata- 
su- 
6, \_chi] . . . dharme samghe sa-gauravena, ayo-vihitam chittam 
variitena Adi . e 
The first passage (obverse, lines 1 and 2) is a sloka, which affords 
the means of calculating the extent of the lost portion of the leaf. The 
dots, inclosed within brackets, indicate the number of lost aksliaras. 
They are ten or eleven, and would occupy the space of about 2f inches. 
The full size of the original leaf, accordingly, must have been 7f by 2| 
inches. This would seem to show that the smaller of the two extant 
wooden boards belonged to this manuscript ; and this conclusion is con- 
firmed by the fact that the board is inscribed with a line of writing 
in Central Asian NAgari (see ante p. 37). The leaf must have been 
torn exactly in the place where the string-hole originally was situated. 
The remainder of the text is in prose. It seems to be another work 
giving the story of a Buddhist charm. From a remark, which I have 
noticed on another leaf, it would appear that the charm was communi- 
cated by Buddha himself to the Maliayaksha Senapati Manibliadra, with 
reference to a son of the latter, called Purnaka. The subject of the 
work, therefore, is similar to that in the Vth Part, and it may possibly 
turn out to be another copy of the same charm. 
The text above quoted may be thus translated : — 
I salute the Tatliagata, the best of enlightened men, the Blessed 
one Uttile, dale, duttile ! May it bo effective ! Svaha ! If any 
disciple of the Blessed-one, any male or female mendicant, or any male 
or female lay-devotee, keeps in mind this my heart in the former part 
and in the latter part of the night, he will bo delivered from punish- 
ment, he will be delivered from any stroke of punishment ; etc. 
On the reverse occur tho names of some Nagas, e. g., Kumbliakarna 
and Maha-kumbhakarna. 
Part VIII. See Plate III, fig. 2. Of this manuscript only 4 leaves 
aro preserved, measuring 5x2| inches, but mutilated on the right-hand 
side. They aro inscribed with 7 lines to the page, of which the lowest 
(or tho uppermost on the reverse) is almost wholly obliterated. The 
characters aro again a specimen of tho round variety of tho Central 
Asian Nagari, approaching rather more to the Indian Gupta type. 
