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subjects are seldom treated in Gilgit mss. Only scanty fragments
of medical texts are preserved (v. HINUBER 1979 & addenda).
The colophons reflect different writing habits in Gilgit and Khotan.
In Khotanese mss. they are often written in cursive Brahmi script
P/. 266 and clearly separated from the sacred text. In Gilgit mss., on the
other hand, the colophons are written rather carelessly^, but not
in a cursive script: the shapes of the <2As%ms do not differ from
those of the formal Brahmi script.
Already F.W. THOMAS (1954) mentioned in his article "Brahmi
Script in Central-Asian Sanskrit Manuscripts" two types of formal
script characteristic of the region of Gilgit and Bamiyan. One he
P/. 207 described as "calligraphic ornate script" and the other one as
a script not confined to this region only, but common to north-
ern India from the end of the sixth to the seventh century A.D.
In the region of Gilgit it preceded the Sarada script, as is clearly
to be seen by comparing the mss. from the Gilgit "stupa" with
the inscriptions of the Chamba state (VOGEL 1911). Hence this
P/. 196, 197 script was termed "Proto-^arada" by O. von HINUBER. In my
palaeographical study on Sanskrit mss. from the Prussian Turfan
collection it is named "Gilgit/Bamiyan type II" in contrast
to the calligraphic ornate type termed there "Gilgit/Bamiyan
type I" (SANDER 1968: 125, 155).
It is the calligraphic ornate script which can be defined as a local
script of the northwestern provinces between Gilgit and Bamiyan.
The observations of F.W. THOMAS upon this script were based
on the reproductions in S. LEVTs article (1952) from mss. found
by HACKIN at Bamiyan. His work was developed by myself with
the help of photos from the museum in Kabul, the mss. in the
Prussian Turfan collection, and on one medical text found by the
Delegation Archeologique Fran^aise en Afghanistan near Bamiyan
in 1966 and published by P. PAULY4 This increased material
2 Cf. LOKESH CHANDRA, Vol. 5, 1970: 675; Vol. 7, 1974: 1315; Vol. 8,
1974: 1864, 1866, 1867, 1947, 1948; Vol. 9, 1974: 2415, 2416; Vol. 10,
1974: 3051,3346.
3 273—283; without citing P. PAULY reanalysed by Yutaka OJ1HARA,
Ms. 1983. The manuscript was kindly placed at my disposal by Professor
von HINUBER. — I thank Professor EMMERICK for his information that
the abstracts of the conference have now been published.
108
of medical texts are preserved (v. HINUBER 1979 & addenda).
The colophons reflect different writing habits in Gilgit and Khotan.
In Khotanese mss. they are often written in cursive Brahmi script
P/. 266 and clearly separated from the sacred text. In Gilgit mss., on the
other hand, the colophons are written rather carelessly^, but not
in a cursive script: the shapes of the <2As%ms do not differ from
those of the formal Brahmi script.
Already F.W. THOMAS (1954) mentioned in his article "Brahmi
Script in Central-Asian Sanskrit Manuscripts" two types of formal
script characteristic of the region of Gilgit and Bamiyan. One he
P/. 207 described as "calligraphic ornate script" and the other one as
a script not confined to this region only, but common to north-
ern India from the end of the sixth to the seventh century A.D.
In the region of Gilgit it preceded the Sarada script, as is clearly
to be seen by comparing the mss. from the Gilgit "stupa" with
the inscriptions of the Chamba state (VOGEL 1911). Hence this
P/. 196, 197 script was termed "Proto-^arada" by O. von HINUBER. In my
palaeographical study on Sanskrit mss. from the Prussian Turfan
collection it is named "Gilgit/Bamiyan type II" in contrast
to the calligraphic ornate type termed there "Gilgit/Bamiyan
type I" (SANDER 1968: 125, 155).
It is the calligraphic ornate script which can be defined as a local
script of the northwestern provinces between Gilgit and Bamiyan.
The observations of F.W. THOMAS upon this script were based
on the reproductions in S. LEVTs article (1952) from mss. found
by HACKIN at Bamiyan. His work was developed by myself with
the help of photos from the museum in Kabul, the mss. in the
Prussian Turfan collection, and on one medical text found by the
Delegation Archeologique Fran^aise en Afghanistan near Bamiyan
in 1966 and published by P. PAULY4 This increased material
2 Cf. LOKESH CHANDRA, Vol. 5, 1970: 675; Vol. 7, 1974: 1315; Vol. 8,
1974: 1864, 1866, 1867, 1947, 1948; Vol. 9, 1974: 2415, 2416; Vol. 10,
1974: 3051,3346.
3 273—283; without citing P. PAULY reanalysed by Yutaka OJ1HARA,
Ms. 1983. The manuscript was kindly placed at my disposal by Professor
von HINUBER. — I thank Professor EMMERICK for his information that
the abstracts of the conference have now been published.
108