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This is a part, between one-half and two-thirds of a folio, imperfect on the left, and therefore lacking a number. But for one small gap near the right lower corner, the existing part, measuring 258 x 121 mm. (or 10 x 4 4/5 inches), is undamaged. The writing, eight lines on either side, in Upright Gupta characters, is fine, bold, formal, black, and clear: a little rubbed at the left lower corner of the obverse and corresponding upper corner of the reverse; but the reverse lines 6-8, with continuation 8 ''a'', are in a different, smaller, thinner, distinctly cursive hand, and probably by another scribe (footnote 13, p. 127), and contain a different text.<br> The text is the conclusion of a Śūraṁgama-samādhi Sūtra, followed by a Dhāraṇī, or charm (in the cursive hand). A Tibetan version, with, however, an amplified ending, may be seen in the Bkah-hgyur, Mdo. vol. 5 (ix), foll. 407 ''b''–510 ''a'' of the India Office edition. It was translated into Chinese in A.D. 384-417 (Nanjio, No. 399, col. 98). For some passages, cited in the Śikṣāsamuccaya, see the Index I to the edition by the late
Professor Bendall. For convenience in following the drift of the passage a conjectural Sanskrit rendering of the corresponding portion of the Tibetan text is appended in parallel columns. (Thomas, preliminary remarks, 125-26) +
