Indian Epigraphy c9.t1.15

c9.t1.15

Some of the earliest palmyra-leaf manuscripts have been discovered outside India. A few works copied on palmyra leaves in the early centuries of the Christian era were discovered in Central Asia,¹ while the Horiuzi (Japan) manuscript of the Buddhist work entitled Uṣṇīṣavijayadhāraṇī is believed to have been written in India in the 6th century A.D.²