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| | Exposition - Vol. II No. 1 April - June 1994 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The oldest manuscripts available today are in the Gupta Brahmi script a few examples are Gilgit Manuscripts, Bower Manuscripts and others found in Turkistan. |
 | | In present day the Indian manuscripts, found in various libraries and private collectins are written in a great variety of scripts; those are Sarada, several types of Newari (Ranjana, Bhujimol, etc.), Gaudi, old Bengali, Maithili, Oriya, Nandinagari, Devanagari, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Grantha, etc. |
 | | For the last 200 years these ancient manuscripts remained a subject of study and research by Indian and Western scholars. |
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