These things and the Sanskrit MSS. are said to have belonged to some Chinese priests, named Hwui-sz' (Yeshi) and Nien-shan (Nenzen), and to four others successively, who lived in a monastery on the mountain called Nan-yo (Nangak), in the province of Hăng (Kô) in China. These palm-leaf MSS. may, therefore, be supposed to date from at least the sixth century A. D., and be, in fact, the oldest Sanskrit MSS. now in existence.[161]
May we not hope that His Excellency Mori Arinori, who expressed so warm an interest in this matter [pg 242] when he was present at the meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society, will now lend us his powerful aid, and request the Minister of the Department of the Imperial Household to allow these MSS. to be carefully copied or photographed?
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Academic freedom not without dangers, [39].
Adams, H. C., quoted, [25].
Alphabet, phonetic, table of, [150];
reading according to, [151] sq.