1893.] A. F. R. Hoernle — The Weber Manuscripts. 5 
however, not so much the mark of a particular variety of characters, as 
of a particular language, and its exact power I do not know. Part IX 
is not written iu Sanskrit, nor have I met with the double dot in any 
Sanskrit text, except once. On the smaller of the two wooden boards, 
three lines are inscribed in Central Asian characters. The board pro- 
bably belongs to the work contained in Part VII, which treats of a Bud- 
dhistic charm, the lines are written in Sanskrit and run as follows : — 
[namoj vidyadharasya dakshine haste — mani dlidrayitavyaiii — o/pi cha 
\_purna-~\ratr-ovavustena suchi-snatena — su-vastra~prdvvitena sddhayivyct 
[.]e siddhi !| 
The words in brackets are broken off and have been conjecturally 
supplied. The meaning is Salutation to the Vidyadhara! Let the 
jewel be placed in the right hand ; then having fasted the whole night, 
washed clean, and put on fresh garments, success will be secured bv 
me.” 1 2 
Here there is the double anusvara over the akshara vri of pravritena. 
But what it is there intended to signify, I do not know. In Part IX, it 
is occasionally found on Sanskrit words, thus rnahchamslitharh , which is a 
mis-spelling for manjishthd. Here it may possibly mark a modification 
in the sound of the vowels ; but its real power is obscure. 
I add a table of the Central Asian alphabet, showing the forms of 
single as well as compound letters. See Plate IV. They are nearly all 
excerpted from the leaves shown in my Plates I to III. In this table are 
also shown the ancient numeral figures. They are found in several of 
the manuscripts ; viz., Parts I, II, IV, VI. 
The Central Asian Xagari has a curious resemblance to the so- 
called “Wartu ” characters of the Tibetans. In this Journal, for 1888, 
Vol. LVII, will be found two plates (I and II) showing these “Wartu” 
characters. It belongs to a paper, published by Babu S. C. Das, on the 
Sacred and Ornamental Characters of Tibet (ibid., p. 41). The resem- 
blance, however, is still more striking’ to certain characters, shown on 
Plate I, in the Asiatic Researches, Vol. XVI (for 1828), and there 
designated respectively as Khacheehee, Oramtsodee, Seendoohee, and 
Pookangkee. The plate seems to have been prepared by Mr. Hodgson 
from “ a vast number of manuscripts, great and small fragments,” as 
specimens of “ Bhotiya ” (i. e., Tibetan) penmanship.^ 
1 Perhaps s&dhayishyate should be read for s&dhayivya[l]e, or sddhayitavyd m$. 
With uvavustena compare the P&li upavuttha. 
2 The letters on the Plate wpuld seem to be intended for facsimiles, but the ac- 
curacy of the copy is not above suspicion. There are certainly some obvious 
mistakes in the identification of the letters ; thus the third group (from the loft) in 
the last line, is not p, ph, b, bh, m, but t, th, d, dh, n. Again the third letter in the 
third lino is not pa, but pd. 
