Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c9.s2.t1.6

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⁸ Compare Bhagvānlāl's table, IA. 6, 42 f.; Kielhorn, Report on the Search for Sanskrit MSS., 1880-81, VIII. ff.; Peterson, First Report, 57 f., and Third Report, App. I, passim; Leumann, Śīlāṅka's Commentary on the Viśeṣāvaśyaka (especially table 35); Cowell and Eggeling, Cat. Sanskrit Buddhist MSS., 52 (J. RAS. 1875); Bendall, Cat. Cambridge Sanskrit Buddhist MSS., LII ff., and table of numerals. In Bendall's Nos. 1049 and 1161, the letter-numerals are also used for dates. The latest date in letter-numerals from Nepāl (Bendall's table of numerals) is A. D. 1583. Letter-numerals are usually only found in Jaina palm-leaf MSS. up to about A. D. 1450; but the Berlin paper MS. No. 1709 (Weber, Verzeichniss d. Skt. und Prāk. Hdschrft., 2, 1, 268; compare D.WA, 37, 250) shows some traces of them.