[INDOLOGY] Question about Nepalese manuscripts

[Harry Spier]

Thank you Charles,
You wrote:

>
> There are a good number of Nepalese scripts that have been used throughout
> the centuries, *so Nepālākṣarā can mean any one of them *like
> Rañjana, Bhujimol, etc. The most commonly used one in the past few
> centuries is Pracalit, which is indeed sometimes called Newari Script, but
> I suppose all the others might also be called as such by some. Yes, like
> all Brāhmī derived scripts, Nepalese scripts are generally written without
> the breaks between words that one finds in Roman script, for example.
>
Based on your comment *"**so Nepālākṣarā can mean any one of them *" I'm
surprised that the  Cambridge university catalogue entries for some NGMCP
manuscripts lists the script only as .Nepālākṣarā,
See links below.  Two manuscripts from 19th century and one from 14-15th
century.
See:
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01386/1
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01164-00002/1
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-02248/1
Thanks,
Harry Spier
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