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c. The reading maanru seems very clear on the fac-simile of M. d'Oldenburg. There has been a confusion on the part of the scribe, but this confusion is easily explained; in the Kharosthi writing it is indeed a form of a, which is only distinguished from dh by the terminal hook being drawn to the right. This hook is turned towards the right in and towards the left in dh. This detail seems to prove, as one would expect, that the copyist was working on a manuscript written in a hand similar to his own.
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12 suñakare pravițhasa satacit.. [bhikhuno amanușa rati] [bhoti same dharma' vivašatu O]
Cf. Dhammap., 373.
a. I do not attempt to decide, at least for the present, if the final e=am, or, what seems at first more probable, if we have to deal with an extension of the use of the locative.
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6. The extremity of the tail of the r, attached-as one may see in verse 14-to the right arm of m, remains visible below the gap.
13 yato yato sammaṣati“ kan(dh)a[na udakavaya' lahati priti][pramoju amutu ta vianatu' O]
Cf. Dhammap., 374.
a. I should linger awhile over the reading I suggest for this word; for the conclusion I have come to regulate a whole series of parallel cases; I would speak of the second character. It is certain that the " is usually marked in this manuscript by a hook placed at the foot of the consonant and more or less inclined towards the right, besides more or less closed, so as to appear occasionally as a small circle, somewhat oblong. The sign which we have here below our m is also a hook, but more rounded and more open than the other and, particularly, placed more towards the right of the consonant. If we consider this circumstance, viz., that the sound mu is usually noted by a special character, it must be avowed, in spite of a certain similarity, that the sign
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