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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
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of well prepared birch-bark leaves, since received from India, for the purpose of repairing the damage suffered, in the mean time, by part VII. In fact, that fresh supply may bave been brought from India by the fourth scribe h'imself who may have been a later immigrant. All four writers must have been residing in a monastery near Kuchar. But the ultimate owner of the whole series of manuscripts, whose name appears to have been Yasomitra, must have held a prominent position in that monastery. For his collective manuscript was contained in the relic chamber of the memorial stûpa at the Ming-oi of Qum Turk, which would appear to have been built in his honour.
