1897.] 
Central Asian Manuscripts. 
233 
The bracketed letters are not quite certain. The aksara pu in 
pujite (fl. 19& 1 ) rather looks like bit; so also pra (fl. 11& 5 ) like bra. 
Namau in fl. 19a 2 and fl. 11a 3 is apparently a clerical error for namo , 
so also gagana-vile in fl. 11a 4 for gagana-vipule. Meghdya in fl. 196 3 
looks more like meydya , but glia and ya have very similar forms. The 
Sanskrit is not perfect; the sandhi of namah is frequently wrong. 
The numeral sign for 92 in fl. 19a 1 , if read correctly, shows that this 
leaf follows the other which is numbered 11. 
The purport is a series of invocations addressed to the Tatbagata 
(or Buddha) under his various names of Stirya-tejas, Dharma-pradipa, 
Qri-Meru, Arcaka (?), Deva-cpu-garbha, Sima-vinardita Vidyut-prabha, 19 
Saraanta-guna-megha, Gragana-citta, Sustha(?)-bhava-vyuha, fri-pra- 
dipa, Jina-surya, Megha-vipulabha, Ratna- 9 ri-prad!pa-guna-ketu, Siddha- 
vrata. Probably all or most of these names may be traced in known 
Buddhist works. In the charms themselves, introduced by tad - 
yathd ‘ as follows,’ the female counterparts of the Buddhas seem 
to be invoked. Mdcani and moksani (fl. lib 1 ) can only be feminine 
vocatives ; which shows that the other forms ending in e must also 
be taken as vocatives of feminine names. 
Set II. (Plate X, No. 3.) One piece of manuscript. Breadth 
probably 11 inches, length unknown. Letters, Northern Indian Brahmi, 
similar to those of Set I (Plates XXVII-XXX, column 1). Language, 
Sanskrit; purport, unknown. The figured leaf is numbered 90. It 
reads as follows : 
1, 
= 90 ratah .. 
2, 
^?rr 
= carata . 
3, 
«=> nyupa . 
..[§-] 
4, 
= vam-eva. 
.[ta-] 
5, 
= d-yatha s(v)a 
= samvi(d)yate.. 
7, 
= na samvi(dya)[te]. i 
Set III. (Plate X, No. 4.) One piece of manuscript. Breadth 
3f inches ; length unknown. Letters, similar to those of Sets I and II 
(Plates XXVII-XXX, col. 1.) Language and purport, unknown. 
The figured leaf reads as follows :— 
1, (kh)o + pyu sva nda nta +yu + 
19 I.e., ‘ bright as a lightening the thunder of which reaches to the horizon.’ The 
reading vinardita, however, is uncertain. Sima seems to stand for simu, or it may 
mean ‘everywhere’ from sima ‘whole.’ 
