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Section II.—Block Prints . 
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Second Set. (Plates IX, X, XIII and XIV.) 
This set comprises six hooks. Some portions of the text are 
also found in the three books of the Sixth Set, and in book VII 
of the First Set. A detailed description of this second set, illus¬ 
trated by two Plates (Xos. I and II), was published by me in the 
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for April, 1898 (pp. 124- 
131). I shall, therefore, here content myself with a briefer account, 
but correcting some errors and adding such information as I have been 
able to glean in the meantime. 
The text, occurs in two different recensions, a shorter one of 12 
lines and a longer of 13 lines, which I shall denote respectively by II a 
and 116. The shorter recension Ila (see Plates IX, fig. 2 and X, fig. 1) 
has its text arranged in two columns, with a wide interval, running 
vertically, while another wide interval intersects the two columns 
horizontally between the 7th and 9th lines. The two intervals thus 
present the shape of a cross. The longer recension II b (Plate X, fig, 2) 
fills up these cross-shaped intervals with additional texts. It consists, 
therefore, of three columns, the additional column being placed in the 
vertical interval, and of thirteen lines, the additional line occupying 
the horizontal interval. It will be noticed that there are a few differ¬ 
ences in the type of the two recensions, e.g ., in the first letter of 
lines 6 and 7; but this may be, merely due to imperfect inking. 
Recension Ila is found in books I—III and recension 116 in books IV-VI. 
The shorter text Ila which is common to both recensions, consists 
of six portions or formulas, which I shall distinguish as A, B, C, D, E 
and F. The formulas A, B, C comprise lines 1, 2, 3—5, 6, 7 —9, 10, 11, 
32, 13 of column I respectively, while formulas D, E, F are made up of 
the corresponding lines of column II. The 4th line appears to be an 
additional one, inserted into what must have been originally an interval, 
similar to the additional line inserted, in the longer recension II&, into 
the still existing horizontal interval. It would seem that a third recen¬ 
sion must have existed, which possessed two horizontal intervals, between 
lines 3, 5 and 7, 9 respectively. I have not, however, met with this 
third recension in any book. Of the six formulas, C ( i.e ., lines 9-13 
of column I) is found in books Xos. land II of the Sixth Set (see 
Plate XIV), while formulas A, B, D, E (each consisting of three lines) 
are found in book No. Ill of the Sixth Set, and formula A is also found 
in book VII of the First Set (see Plate XIII). As yet the formula F 
has not been found by me separately in any book. 
For printing these several texts seven different blocks must have been 
in use : one for recension Ila, another for recension 116, and five more for 
the five formulas A,B,C,D,E. This is clearly shown by the enclos- 
