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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Written Monuments of the Orient</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Written Monuments of the Orient</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Written Monuments of the Orient</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2410-0145</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">“Nauka” Publishers: “Vostochnaya Literatura” (Oriental Literature) Publisher</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">430377</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.55512/wmo430377</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading"><subject>Original Papers</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">A Sanskrit Manuscript in Proto-Śāradā Script: Fragments of Āryaśūra’s <italic>Jātakamālā</italic></article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shomakhmadov</surname><given-names>Safarali H.</given-names></name><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><email>safaralihshom@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Hartmann</surname><given-names>Jens-Uwe</given-names></name><address><country country="DE">Germany</country></address><bio><p>Institute of Indology and Tibetology</p></bio><email>juhartmann@lmu.de</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><institution>Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff id="aff2"><institution>Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich</institution></aff><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-06-25" publication-format="electronic"><day>25</day><month>06</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>9</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><fpage>50</fpage><lpage>60</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-05-19"><day>19</day><month>05</month><year>2023</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2023-05-29"><day>29</day><month>05</month><year>2023</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2023, Shomakhmadov S.H., Hartmann J.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Shomakhmadov S.H., Hartmann J.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/2410-0145/article/view/430377">https://journals.eco-vector.com/2410-0145/article/view/430377</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article continues a series of publications of Sanskrit manuscript fragments written in the Proto-Śāradā script and kept in the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM, RAS). This article contains passages of stories from the “Garland of Jātakas” (Jātakamālā) by Āryaśūra. The article argues that the fragment from the Serindia Collection of the IOM, RAS belongs to the same manuscript as folios from the Turfan Collection (Berlin, Germany) and the Lüshun Museum (Dalian, PRC). All these scattered folios, which appear in different collections, used to be parts of one and the same manuscript of Āryaśūra’s Jātakamālā. The Sanskrit fragment of the Mahābodhi-jātaka from the Serindia Collection of the IOM, RAS, analyzed in this article, is a passage from a dispute between a Bodhisattva and various Indian teachers, in which the Buddhist ascetic refutes the arguments of his opponents.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Buddhism</kwd><kwd>Sanskrit manuscripts</kwd><kwd>Jātaka</kwd><kwd>paleography</kwd><kwd>‘Proto-Śāradā’</kwd><kwd>Serindia</kwd><kwd>Āryaśūra’s Jātakamālā</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>CHEN Ling 2012: “The Tuyoq Buddhist Grottoes in Shanshan County, Xinjiang”. Chinese Archaeology 12: 21–27.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>LE COQ, Albert von 1926: Auf Hellas Spuren in Ostturkistan: Berichte und Abenteuer der II. und III. deutschen Turfan-Expedition. Leipzig: J.C. 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