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III.—MANUSCRIPT REMAINS IN SANSKRIT, KUCHEAN, KHOTANESE
FROM SITES OF MÎRÂN, YÂR-KHOTO, SHÔRCHUK, KHÔRA

(See above, pp. 489, 1167, 1187 sqq., 1224)

Mi. ii. 0011. Remains of palm-leaf Pôthî, one mutilated fol. and fr. of another, in Skr. and Upright Gupta. Writing of rather early Indian Gupta type; 5 ll. each side on large fr., 2 ll. on small. Large fr. mutilated on L. and top, with string-hole 4⅜″ from R. end. Text apparently grammatical; see e.g. l. 4. No. 530, Hoernle Reg. Gr. fr. 6¼″×2″. Pl. CXLIII.

Y.K. 009. Nine frs. of Pôthî in Kuchean language and Slanting Gupta chars.; not yet read, or identified. Four frs. large, five minute. No. 538, Hoernle Reg.

Mi. ii. a. Fourteen frs. of Pôthî in Skr. and Upright Gupta. Four larger frs. belong to same fol., which, as complete, must have measured about 20⅜″×3⅜″; it retains damaged fol. No. 51 and shows 7 ll. on full width of 3⅜″. Three smaller frs. belong to another fol., possibly No. 52. The other seven fragments may belong to a third fol.
All frs. described, and transcribed by Prof. de la Vallée Poussin in J.R.A.S., 1913, pp. 850 ff. They belong to the Saṃghabhedavastu, and relate episode of Buddha's meeting with the two merchants Trapuṣa and Bhallika. No. 532, Hoernle Reg.

Mi. xiii. 006. Three frs. of Pôthî fol. in Kuchean language and Slanting Gupta; not yet read or identified. Small and badly damaged; stiff whitish paper. No. 533, Hoernle Reg.

Mi. xiv. 1. Fr. of Pôthî fol., L. end with fol. No. 939, and 6 ll. in Skr. and Slanting Gupta. Read and transcribed by Prof. de la Vallée Poussin in J.R.A.S., 1913, p. 855. No. 534, Hoernle Reg. 4⅜″×3″.

Mi. E. 001. Three minute frs. of Pôthî in Kuchean language and Slanting Gupta. One from L. end of fol. showing fol. No. 8 (?). No. 535, Hoernle Reg.

Mi. vii. 1. Fr. of painted and inscr. wood, apparently from base of panel painted with figs. of Bodhisattvas; showing remains of six lotus pedestals of those figs., and below them one l. writing in clear Kuchean script, divided in five compartments, corresponding to the five lotuses above them, and giving apparently the names of the figures. Two syllables in first compartment illegible. No. 536, Hoernle Reg. 1′ 10½″×2″.

Mi. xxi. 002. Inscribed wooden post, octagonal in section, pointed at one end; much worm-eaten and fissured. Inscr. with (apparently) 8 ll. writing in large Upright Gupta chars. and Khotanese language, running parallel along length from head to point; mostly illegible from faintness and fissures. No. 537, Hoernle Reg. H. 2′ 5⅜″; diam. 4″.

Khora. 005. a, b. Two frs. of two Pôthîs of stiff, whitish paper, much damaged, in Skr. and Slanting Gupta, containing hymns of Mātṛceta.
(1) Fr. of the Catuḥśataka-stotra, containing portions of chap. i, verses 1–12; 5 ll. on page; 9¼″×2⅜″; full length about 15″. (2) Small fr., 4⅜″×1¼″, of the Śatapañc-āśatikā-stotra, containing portions of verses 146–50, or, as numbered in our MS., verses 10–14. The full size of fol. must have been about 9″×1⅜″.
Both frs. described and transcribed in Hoernle, Buddhist Literature from Eastern Turkestan, i. pp. 73-80. No. 540, Hoernle Reg.

Khora. 005. c. Small fr. of Pôthî fol.; from middle of upper edge, stiff, whitish paper, with remains of 2 ll. writing and traces of 3rd l. on either page, in Kuchean language, Slanting Gupta chars. Fol. No. lost. Purport unknown. No. 541, Hoernle Reg.

IV.—MANUSCRIPTS IN SANSKRIT, KHOTANESE, AND KUCHEAN FROM
WALLED-UP CHAPEL OF CH'IEN-FO-TUNG, TUN-HUANG

(See above, pp. 913 sqq.)

Ch. 0041. Roll, complete; dun-coloured paper, slightly damaged along edges. Inscr. on rev. with 151 ll., in corrupt Skr. and Cursive Gupta; on obv. Chin. language.
Contents: combination of two dhāraṇîs; for first, ending in middle of 10th l., the Uṣṇîṣa-vijaya, see Anecdota Oxon., i. pt. iii, pp. 9, 22, 35, 36; for second, the Tathāgatoṣṇîṣasitātapatrānāmā Aparājitā Mahāpratyaṅgirā, see J.R.A.S., 1911, pp. 460-68. Valuable on account of the light thrown by its Skr. corruptions on phonetics of Khotanese. No. 1, Hoernle Reg. 10′ 10″×10⅜″. Pl. CXLVII.

Ch. 0042. Roll, complete; dun-coloured paper, slightly damaged along edges. Inscr. on obv. with Chin.; on rev. with series of separate entries in Khotanese and Cursive Gupta script; which, however, are to be read in opposite directions from the two ends of roll.
Contents: (1) to be read from top end, 5 or 6 short entries, giving fragments of Khotanese alphabet; (2) from the bottom end, 6 or 7 very short entries, containing the date asa salya haḍyaja māle ksauṃya haḍi, i. e. 'The Horse (Skr. aśva) year, in the Haḍvaja month, on the sixth day'; and seal. No. 2, Hoernle Reg. 6′ 5″×10″.

Ch. 0043. Roll, complete; dun-coloured paper, damaged at upper edge. Inscr. on obv. with Chin.; on rev. with about 48 ll. of writing in very rude Cursive Gupta and