Indian Epigraphy c9.t4.7

c9.t4.7

The earliest paper manuscript discovered in Gujarat was copied in 1223-24 A. D.² M. A. Stein³ refers to a Kashmirian manuscript of the *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa* on paper which was copied in 1089 A.D. Some manuscripts, written on paper, covered with a layer of gypsum, in North Indian characters of about the 5th century A.D. or a slightly earlier date, were discovered near Yarkhand in Central Asia.⁴ But they may have been written outside India.