1893.] 
A. F. R. Hoernlc — The Weber Manuscripts. 
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pai’fc of tlio country which ho visited. Towards the end of the 7th century 
and early in the 8tli, Central Asia was overrun by the Muhammadan 
armies of the Khalifat, and this put an end to the Sanskrit culture of 
those regions. Hence our Central Asian manuscripts which still show 
evidences of a distinct Sanskrit culture cannot well be placed after 
that date. 
I now proceed to describe the several parts of tlio Weber MSS. 
in detail : — 
Part I. (See Plate I, fig. 1.) There are nine leaves, mutilated on 
the right-hand side. They measure 7| by 2f inches, and have eight lines 
to the page, excepting the obverse of the 14tli leaf, which has 9 lines. 
The leaves are consecutively numbered, from 7 to 15, in the old style of 
figures. The first six leaves and those after the fifteenth are wanting. 
The obverse of the 15th leaf is shown in Plate I, fig. 1. The number 
15 (i. e., the figure for 10, and below it the figure for 5) is seen on the 
left-hand margin. The page reads as follows : — 
2, fsr^nH fsi<T[< 'onwwqRi 3 11 ^ 
<\ k 
3, §, || Trft 
4 , 11 ’fcjf^TST^rw^r *i<jisrg%?r fw 
5, Ju 37T SficSfFT 5fr%'5 | II VpTWVT WiTlT 
6, rnv3r^jfr=rijr n v=?tt^ 
7, 6^. || ffWPC F?n3>Hl%<T 
8 , aftnfgT^K fiju 11 
In the following Roman transliteration I have added, in straight 
brackets and italics, the missing portions, so far as it is possible to deduce 
them from the context and other parts of the manuscript. It will be 
seen that from 9 to 11 aksharas are missing in each line, which would 
occupy nearly two inches of the leaf. The original size of the leaf, 
therefore, must have been 9^ by 2| inches, that is, exactly the size of 
the larger of the two wooden boards. This circumstance would seem to 
prove that the larger board was one of the two covers of this particular 
manuscript. 
1, ksliatram chatus-taram gaja-vikkrama-saihsthitam pancha-chatva- 
ri[m]sa-muhurta-y6gam madhu-laj-aharam Vaisya-daivata[mJ 
M\au~\A.ga\ldyani-g6trena 19 II Abhi-\ 
2, ji naksliatram tri-taram go-slrsha-sarirsthitam sapta-muhurta-y6gam 
J. j. 2 
