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and Jesalmir. From the above statement it is clear that in Gujarat and Mâryâd palm-leaves were used as a writing material before the introduction of paper. The earliest palm-leaf manuscript we possess was, it will be seen, written in 1082 A.D., and our earliest paper manuscript in 1320 A.D. So far as our present researches go, therefore, paper did not come into use till the beginning of the fourteenth century; and since our latest palm-leaf manuscript is dated 1450 Sanyat or 1394 A.D., it appears that palm-leaves continued to be used as well as paper till about the end of that century. From the beginning of the fifteenth we find paper only employed.
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R. G. BHANDARKAR, Professor of Oriental Languages.
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