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Section III. Manuscripts. 
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starch-loading ; of whitish colour. Writing, much obliterated through 
peeling off of surface coating of paper. Findplace, same as of No. 1. 
Script, Central Asian slanting type of Gupta characters. Language, 
mixed Sanskrit prose. Subject, Buddha’s discourse with the Maha- 
yaksa Manibhadra, whose story is briefly told in the Samyutta Nikaya 
(Pali Text Society, Part I, p. 203). Age, 5th century A.D. 
No. 3. Pothi. 
Belongs to G. 1. Described (not quite correctly) and figured in 
Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Yol. LXYI (1897), pp. 227, 231? 
plates ii and iii. A mere fragment of the book, only two complete leaves 
and two small pieces of a third, surviving. Size, 11 x2|". Number of 
lines on page, 5, with about 27-30 aksaras in a line. Stringhole at 2| /r 
from left edge, within a circle of •§-" diameter. Leaves numbered 9 and 
11 (not 19 and 11 as stated in the Journal) on the obverse pages. Paper, 
very similar to that of the Chinese and Brahml documents (see Group 
II, p. 32), of whitish colour, and with waterlines, about 14 to an inch, 
running parallel with length of leaf and in same direction as writing. 
Find-place, said to be “ old buried city in vicinity of Kuchar ” but perhaps 
Dandan Uiliq (see p. 31). Script, upright Gupta characters of the Central 
Asian calligraphic variety. Language, mixed Sanskrit prose. Subject? 
dharanis or incantations, divided into sutras, as follows : sutras 72-80 on 
leaf 9, and 90-93 on leaf 11. On leaf 10, there must have stood sutras 
81-89. As the fragmentary leaf commences a page with sutra 41, and 
as there stood, on the average, eight sutras on a leaf, it follows that the 
fragmentary leaf must be the 5th, and must have borne sutras 41-48. 
Age, probably 7th century A.D. 
No. 4. Pothi. 
Belongs to G. 7, T. 1, and M. 3. A mere fragment of the book, 
consisting of four more or less complete leaves, and five small pieces of 
three or four leaves. Probable full size, 2^-x ll£'\ Number of lines on 
page, 4, with about 21-27 aksaras in a line. Stringhole at 2f" from left 
edge, within a circle of diameter. Two leaves numbered 8 and 27, 
but uncertain whether on obverse or reverse pages. Paper, as in No. 3, 
but with waterlines about 13 to an inch, running parallel to longer side 
of leaf, in all but three of the small pieces in which they number 16 to 
an inch and run parallel to the shorter side and across the writing. Find- 
place, probably, the same as of No. 3. Script, and language, as in No. 3. 
Subject, apparently the same as in No. 1. Age, as of No. 3. 
No. 5. Pothi. 
Belongs to G. 1. Described and figured by me in Journal, Asiatic 
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