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Title

Pothi manuscript of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra (Lotus Sutra) in Sanskrit.

Date

400 to 599

Find site

Khadalik

Measurement

height 9.3 centimetres, width 41.4 centimetres

Language / script

Brahmi (script) Sanskrit (lang.)

Subject

Buddhism

Description

Scope and content : Folio 8 written in the script described by Lore Sander as South Turkestan Brahmi script s (Sander 1968 and 2009). Probably purchased in 1922 by Clarmont Skrine during his tenure as British Consul-General at Kashgar (1922-24) from Badruddin or Noldovack (see Sims-Williams and Waugh 2010).

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Skrine 1922-4

Find site identifier

Kha.

Find site description

Site near Domoko on Southern Taklamakan

Sponsors

The digitisation of this manuscript has been made possible thanks to the support of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/).

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