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lines they number only G each. 82 This difference can only be accounted 
for by the fact that the string-hole stood on the missing portion of the 
leaf and, with its surrounding blank, took up the space of about 5 or 6 
aksaras. Precisely the same conclusions may be drawn from the 
obverse of the Macartney MS. Leaf I, a restored transcript of which is 
given by me below. In lines 2 and 4, about 14 and 12 aksaras respec¬ 
tively are missing, while in lines 2 and 3 only 8 and 2 aksaras 
respectively, thus suggesting a space for the string-hole in the latter 
lines. The total number of aksaras in the 2nd and 4th lines is about 35, 
which represents a leugth of leaf of about 7| inches. 
To complete the case of this manuscript, it is now clear that 
altogether fifty leaves of it exist: 8 leaves are in the Petroffski collec¬ 
tion, 7 in the Weber collection, and now 35 in the Macartney collection. 
This gives a fairly large manuscript, and when all the three portions 
are once brought together, read and compared, it will probably appear 
that nearly the whole, if not the whole, of the manuscript has been 
recovered. 83 
This manuscript is written in the Central Asian Brahmi, marked 
by the peculiar form of e and the peculiar general slant of the letters. 
The alphabet of it has been published by me in my paper on the 
Weber MSS. in volume LXII of this Journal , Plate IV. 
> 
The subject of the manuscript is the story of the Great Yaksa 
General Manibhadra, and how he visited Buddha and received from 
him a powerful spell. It was a favourite •story with the Buddhists; 
for it seems to be also the subject of Part VII of the Bower MS. 34 It 
is also very briefly told in one of the Sutras of the Samyutta Nikaya. 85 
Transcript. Plate XV. Leaf I; Obverse. 
1, || Nagar-opama aramo solme p(rarambha) 
2, [Evam maya 9 rutam=eka-samaye Bhagavam vi]ha[rati] jetava- 
n(e) Anathapindad-arame * atha khalu 
3, [Manibhadra makayaksa](se)napati pamca-yaksa- 9 ata-parivar 5 
pu(rask)rta-pari(krto) atikra- 
4, [ntayam ra](tryam) sarvam je( ta)vanam=udar(e)n-avabhasena 
(s)pharitva (yena) Bhaga- 
32 The word astu in the fourth line, printed by Dr. von Oldenburg in italics as 
missing, really exists on the original leaf, and should have been printed in Roman. 
33 I may add that the same story of Manibhadra is also contained in Part V, 
of the Weber MSS., of which 8 leaves exist in that collection, and apparently one 
leaf in the Petroffski collection, No. 7 in Dr. von Oldenburg’s paper. 
34 See my edition of the Bower MS., p. 236. 
36 See Series of the Pali Text Society, Part I, p. 208. This was first pointed 
out by Dr. von Oldenburg. 
