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Pothi Buddhist manuscript in Sanskrit on silk.
Date
500 to 599
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Measurement
height 13 centimetres, width 30.5 centimetres
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Description
Scope and content : This is the only known example of a manuscript on silk - a tradition from China - cut into pothi shape - a tradition from south Asia. It has been covered with a chalk ground to take the ink, which has been written in pen. It was discovered below a niche, at the base of a brick stupa inside the fort at Bash-Koyumal.
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Find site identifier
BKoy.
Stein site number
B.Koy.i.016-l20
Find site description
Ruined enclosure containing a stupa situated approximately 5 miles south of Charkhlik, on the southern arm of the Silk Road.
Excavation history : Stein visited in 1907 (Stein 1921: 314) and again in January 1914 (Stein 1928: 166ff) and noted that the remains showed signs of superificial searching in places by Tachibana on the Otani expedition of 1910-11.
Short description : Polyagonal enclosure containing stupa.
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