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H. P. Shasfcri —Notes on Palm-leaf MSS. 
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much later. The author appears from his name to be a Bengali bhiksu. 
His name is given as Pundarika or Kamalavara which resembles in 
form the name of another Bengali bhiksu, namely, Tathagatavara given 
above. This proves that even by the end of the thirteenth century, or 
later, Buddhist works used to be composed in Bengal and the era of 
Nirvana was current in that country. This is perhaps the first MS., yet 
found, the composition of which is dated in the Nirvana era. There are 
numerous illustrations in this work representing Buddha as Upaya, as 
male, and Dharma, otherwise as female. The Kamakala is represent¬ 
ed as producing the Samgha represented by the Bodhisattvas. The 
MS. and the illustrations are in excellent preservation. 
I examined a few more MSS., but I could not for want of time take 
full notes. For instance, I examined a copy of Brhan-naradiya-purana, 
an incomplete copy of Strata ending at the 447th leaf, a few leaves 
of Ramayana and so on. 
I saw a delapidated copy of a work in one of the Southern characters, 
on the wooden cover of which is written in Newari, thing sa phut , that 
is, a dirty MS. 
