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1891.] Dr. Hoernle —An instalment of the Bower Manuscript . 
25 spears, 25 swords, 15 coats of mail, 25 pieces of silk, 10 pieces of 
brocade, 182 25 pieces of gauze with and without a pattern, 183 2 5 pieces of 
broad gauze for ‘scarfs of blessing,’ 1811 and other presents in all past 
comprehension. 
Then he reared the Leh-ch’en-pal-K’ar 186 (palace) of nine stories and 
completed it within about three years. 186 His own private utensils for re¬ 
ligious worship 187 were all made of gold and silver and very numerous. 
He also caused a kagyur to be copied (the writing) in gold, silver and 
copper, and besides many other (religious) treatises and books. 
I. —An instalment of the Bower Manuscript.—By Dr. A. F. Rudolf 
Hoernle. 
The portion of the Bower Manuscript which I publish in the follow¬ 
ing pages is that which I have marked in my paper “ On the Date of the 
Bower MS.,” # as the fifth. I placed it there as the last portion of the 
entire manuscript. That, however, was a mere matter of accident, this 
portion happening to be the last that I examined. What position the 
portion actually occupies in the entire MS., will have to be determined 
hereafter, when I have concluded the more thorough examination of 
the relic in which I am now engaged. 
This portion of the manuscript is written on five leaves. They are 
regularly numbered from 1 to 5, on the left-hand margin, on the 
reverse sides of the leaves, in the old style of numeral figures.f On the 
reverse of the third leaf, however, a little distance below the current 
number 3, there are two other symbols which look like the number 51, 
182 Tib. f 3j’f*W = Urdu : 
183 Tib. = Silk-gauze with dots; the same without dots. The 
A CN 
two words combined = 
184 Tib. UV T JC) T is the broad variety of this kind of loose gauze. For ‘ skarfs of 
, blessing’ see Hue and Gabet’s Memoirs, Sir Monier Williams’ book, etc. 
185 This is the palace of Leh, a conspicuous building immediately above the city. 
186 Tib. QJ CT E)^3Tcomp. Jaschke’s Diet. sub voce C;'—meaning : 
‘ the first half of the tenth month,’ hence here we probably ought to translate : ‘ the 
first half of the third year.’ 
187 Tib. covers the meaning of this entire expression. 
* See ante , p. 79. 
t As shown in the Indian Antiquary , Yol. VI, p. 44, column 4. 
