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Birch bark manuscript from Kashmir of the Rupavatara, a grammatical textbook based on the Sanskrit grammar of Panini. It was composed by Dharmakirti, a Buddhist monk from Ceylon. The manuscript was transcribed in 1663. Wellcome Images. (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license)