1897.] 
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Central Asian Manuscripts. 
of the horizontal stroke of a , Jc, r and su is worth noting. Its intention, 
of course, is to delimit that stroke. 
Nos. V and VI. These two fragments, both on paper and in 
Northern Indian, seem to me to be the most archaic looking in the 
collection. 
No. VII. In Northern Indian and on paper. Piece a shows the old 
numeral 3 in the third line. 
No. VIII. On paper and in Northern Indian. In hardly legible 
condition. The large letter lu on piece b possibly indicates the numeral 
30, though its position in the lower right-hand corner is not the usual 
one for pagination. 
No. IX. On brown paper, and in Central Asian in a large, 
bold hand and of a somewhat later type than No. IV. Piece d shows a 
numeral figure on the margin, which I take to be 9. Piece li shows 
the numeral figure for 90 and below it that for 2d This fact shows this 
piece to be the remnant of the 92nd leaf of some large work of an 
unknown character. 
No. X. On paper, and in Central Asian Nagari of exactly the 
same type as in Part VI. of the Weber MSS. The original breadth of the 
leaf is shown by piece c, which measures about 2| inches, and shows that 
there are eight lines to the page, the top and bottom lines nearly touching 
the margins. The leaves of Part VI of the Weber MSS., measure 2f 
inches in breadth, and there are only seven lines on a page. Moreover, 
as already stated (ante, p. 217) the letter m is formed differently in the 
two manuscripts. All these circumstances proves ufficiently that our frag¬ 
ment cannot have belonged to that Part VI, which contains an ancient 
Sanskrit koQa or vocabulary. On the other hand, from the occurrence, 
in Xc 6 , of the phrase padau vanditva, it seems probable that the subject 
of this manuscript was the same as that of Set I a of the Macartney 
MSS. 8 and Parts V and VII of the Weber MSS. 
No. XI. On thin paper, and in Northern Indian Gupta of an early 
type, as shown by the absence of the intermediate form of ya in yeXld^ 
and yd XIu 3 and XI d b . It may be referred to the 4th century A.D. 
Noteworthy are the curious elongated forms of medial i and sub¬ 
scribed y. 
No. XII. On soft white paper, thickly coated with a white sizing; 
written in fully developed Central Asian, of the same type as in Part IX 
of the Weber MSS. 
I Of the second stroke of 2 only a minute trace remains. Of course, it is 
possible that there may have beeu a third stroke, which would make the number to 
be 93. 
8 See infra , page 243, on Leaf II, obverse, lines 4 and 5. 
