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ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS IN SANSKRIT, CENTRAL-ASIAN BRAHMI, SOGDIAN, MANICHAEAN-TURKISH, RUNIC TURKISH, UIGUR, TIBETAN, FROM WALLED-UP TEMPLE LIBRARY, ‘CAVES OF THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS’. 1. Sanskrit Prajna-paramita text on palm leaves. 2. Roll with Manichaean ‘Confession of Sins’ in early Turkish. 3. Book in Runic Turkish. 4. 6. Uigur texts in book form. 5. Pothi in Central-Asian Brahmi script. 7. Text in cursive Central-Asian Brahmi written on reverse of Chinese MS. roll. 8. Roll with Sogdian text. 9. Leaf of Tibetan Buddhist Pothi. |