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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
The following documents were discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in his last Central Asian expedition, in 1930. Since he was not allowed by the local authorities to bring anything out of the country on that occasion, these texts are edited from photographs. The originals are presumably not likely to be seen again.
page 113 note 1 Uninscribed space.
page 113 note 2 pru.
page 114 note 1 bha.
page 115 note 1 Separated from column A by a vertical stroke.
page 115 note 2 pu.
page 116 note 1 śu.
page 117 note 1 Sic.
page 117 note 2 = Mahādeva.
page 119 note 1 Complaints of people who have been given too many offices are common; cf. 10, 430, 439, 562. Comparison with these enables the second syllable of dra[ṃgha] to be restored with certainty.
page 119 note 2 The word koyima(ṃ) occurs elsewhere only in 38. Isolated it might have appeared merely a mistake for koyimaṃḌhina., but it has been confirmed by this text. The koyima(ṃ) is a kind of official engaged in collecting corn and koyimaṃḌhina is a derivative adjective from it.
page 119 note 3 kurvasi = kareṣi is difficult as being a form that occurs nowhere else. Possibly we may alternatively read [na] puna koyima purvasi “But he was not formerly a koyima”.
page 119 note 4 masimciye does not occur elsewhere. It is derived from masina, which to judge by 374 (masinaṃmi saṃvatsari palýi ciṃditaǵa) is probably a place name. The interpretation attempted by 0. Stein, BSOS., VIII, 767, is to be rejected.
