Document written on pieces of the inner layer of birch bark

Gilgit Buddhist manuscripts : revised and enlarged compact facsimile edition / by Raghu Vira and Lokesh Chandra.

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Gilgit Buddhist manuscripts : revised and enlarged compact facsimile edition / by Raghu Vira and Lokesh Chandra.