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 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. 83 PALI MANUSCRIPTS. R. IS. 148. 142 palm-leaves, 19 inclies by 2 ; 8 lines on a page; Burmese character. The copy was finished on the 1st day of the waxing moon of September, 1741. Dhammasangani, the first of the seven books of which the Abhidhamma-pitaka, or Doctrinal Section of the Sacred Canon of the Southern Buddhists^ consists. The com- mencement of the Introduction (mdtikd) is given in Bumouf and Lassen's " Essai sur le Pali/' Paris, 1826, p. 190 S; and the first passage of the explanatory com- ment in the Catalogue of the Or. MSS. of the Imper. Library of St. Petersburg, p. 635. For the sake of com- parison with the St. Petersburg MS., which is written in Cambodian characters, the same passage is here tran- scribed. ^r(^ jartm ^^9WT I v:^[ ^w^ ^i*fifl^< gw^ f^ ^ ^^Mlftfif ^'l*IIftf?T%?HT WRET