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[No. 4, 
2, + cum dii va te tu a ta (bbh)a ra na 
3, +a nda va ta ‘ a ta a ci ma jse v(i) 
4, pha te u spu ca ha ma te va te 
5, sta ma na pra ysa ta, na ssa dde 
The bracketed letters are uncertain. Thus, what I have read as hhh 
in line 2, might be nga; the upper portion looks like 6, but the lower 
rather seems to be g. Crosses indicate indistinctly visible letters. 
The double dot occurs very frequently ; but I may note here that it 
never, so far as my observation or memory serves me, occurs with any 
vowel but short a, of which it would hence seem to indicate some 
variety. 
Set IV. (Plate X, No. 5). One piece of manuscript. Breadth 
24 inches ; length unknown. Letters, similar to those of Sets I to III. 
Language and purport unknown. What is distinguishable of the 
figured leaf, reads as follows : 
Jj + + + + 
2, yse ra tra nda 
3, vi + gam jri va sve ba 
4, pra (cca) + (t)i bu nti (or tti) cu 
Set VII. (Plates X to XIII, Nos. 6 to 15.) Fifty-nine pieces of 
manuscript. Size of full leaf about 11x9 inches. Letters, a kind of 
cursive Brahmi of the Central Asian type, especially with reference to 
the formation of the superscribed vowels i, e, ai. See Plates XXVII 
to XXX, col. 2. Language and purport unknown. It may be noted 
as a peculiarity that the right-hand one of the double-dots is, a rule, 
made with a curve to the right: also, that ligatures are not very 
common, and those that occur are, with rare (and uncertain) exceptions, 
such as might be found in a Sanskritic dialect. 
In the subjoined transliterations, undetermined consonants are 
indicated by a query ; uncertain letters, by italics; indistinctly visible 
letters, by a cross or within round brackets ; and missing letters, by a 
square or within angular brackets. Recurrent groups of letters are 
joined by hyphens, see especially Nos. 9 and 11. It must be understood 
that the value of some of the letters, though not specially indicated, is 
more or less conjectural; thus, t and n are difficult to distinguish, and 
in every case, what has been given as t may really be «, or vice versa. 
Otherwise, however, I believe the values given are fairly certain ; but 
ultimate certainty will only be attainable, when the language of the 
writing has been determined. 
