260 R. Hoernle— Three further Collections of Central Asian MSS • [No. 4, 
Central Asian. It will be seen, that only a small number of manuscripts 
are written in a language which is not Sanskrit; the majority are written 
in Sanskrit. This goes to confirm the fact, also otherwise known, that, as 
a rule, the Turki-Uighur used their own Uighur characters for their native 
literature, and the Brahmi, whether of the Northern Indian or of the 
Central Asian type, was practically limited to the Buddhists and to 
Sanskrit literature imported by them from India. And this further 
tends to show that the employment of the Central Asian type of Brahmi 
is not likely to have survived for very long the cessation of the use of 
the Northern Indian type of Brahmi. The latter, as I have shown, 
must have ceased to be in use with the cessation of importations from 
India, in the 7th century A. D. 
P. S. I have just noticed that the ancient name of Kashgar and 
of the country round about was Suli. See Beal’s Buddhist Records , 
Vol. II, p. 306, note; also N. Elias’ Tarikh-i-Rashidi. p. 8, note. It is 
curious that the documents, Nos. 8 and others among the Godfrey MSS., 
(see ante , p. 240) begin with Sali, followed by a numeral. Could it be a 
date P 
