Indian Epigraphy c9.t5.5

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³ Loc. cit. Manuscripts on varnished boards are common in Burma. The Bodleian Library, Oxford, is said to possess a manuscript on wooden boards, which was secured from Assam. They may however really be sheets of Aloe bark with a layer of wood attached to them (cf. *Journ. As.*, 1958, p. 86). Poor people of U. P. copied religious works on black boards with chalk (R.L. Mitra in Gough’s *Collection and Preservation of the Records of Ancient Sanskrit Literature*, 1878, p. 18).