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0468 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 468 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000234
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distinguished by its toughness and yellowish colour, and invariably
on one side only. Already at the time of their discovery it was easy
to recognise that, with the exception of three detached sheets
showing very cursive characters, which have since been proved to
contain Buddhist prayers and religious poems, all Tibetan leaves
and fragments had formed part of a single Pothi. The manner in
which the pieces of manuscript were found deposited before the
various images and on the mouldings of the central pedestal leaves
no doubt that they had been distributed purposely. In order to
propitiate as many divinities as possible, the pious owner on his
visit to this shrine seems to have first cut up the manuscript in the