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clusively throughout the MS. Indeed, in the second, third and fourth 
portions it is used exclusively, and it is only in the first and fifth por¬ 
tions, that the transitional form occasionally occurs. 
(2) This transitional form is never used, except when carrying the 
vowels E or AT or 0 or A TJ. 
(3) Even with those vowels, the use of the transitional form is optional; 
though on the whole, it is more usual than that of the old form. 
(4) Of the two forms of the cursive YA, the transitional and the 
modern, the former is used almost exclusively ; the modern cursive form 
occurring only in a few isolated cases. 
The following examples are all taken from the two published 
plates; and I have only to remark, that the pages, figured on the two 
plates, are very fair specimens of the whole manuscript. 
The transitional cursive form is to be seen on Plate I, No. I,* in 
yoga, 1. 1, yoga, 1. 2 twice, yoganam, 1. 3, trayodasam, 1. 5, Jcalpayet, 1. 9 ; 
again on Plate III, upper page, in jivaniyo, 1. 2, payo, 1. 4, jivaniyais- 
cha, 1. 4, lepayet , 1. 4, vimisrayet, 1. 6, prayojayet , 1. 6, avagahayet, 1. 6, 
yo..., 1. 6, lehayet, 1. 8, prayojayet, 1. 11. Note that it is always used 
with the vowels e or ai or o . 
There is only one instance of the modern cursive form; it occurs in 
the akshara yet of prayojayet in Plate III, upper page, in line 11. Here 
we have the transitional and the modern cursive forms side by side in one 
word, the former form being used in the akshara yo, the latter in the 
akshara yet. A similar instructive example of the use, side by side, 
of the old and the transitional forms, we have ibidem in prayojayet, in 
line 6, where the old form is seen in the akshara yet, while the transi¬ 
tional form occurs in the akshara yo. 
Of the old form there are the following instances. On Plate I, No. 
I, we have it in churnnayet, 1. 10, and on Plate III, upper page, in upakal- 
payet, 1. 2, # * yet, 1. 3, prayojayet, 1. 6, lehayet, 1. 8, pdyayet, 1. 9. Note 
here again, that all these instances are with the vowel e. Of the old 
form with the vowel o there is no instance in the figured pages ; but I 
have noticed a few cases in other parts of the manuscript. Of course, I 
exclude here, as being beside the precise point in question, all instances 
of the use of the old form in combination with any other vowel, only 
remarking, that it is used uniformly with all other vowels. 
To sum up, the examination of the two specimen pages shows : 
ad Nos. 1 and 2, that the old form is used exclusively, except with the 
vowels e, ai, o and auf ; ad No. 3, that out of 23 instances, in which the 
* Plate I is in the April Proceedings 1891, and Plate III in the November 
Proceedings, 1890. 
f Of an there is no instance in the figured pages, but I have met with a few in 
other pages of the manuscript. 
