Editing Gandhari language (section)

==Buddhist manuscripts in Gāndhāri==
Until 1994, the only Gāndhāri manuscript available to the scholars was a [[birch bark manuscript]] of a Buddhist text, the ''[[Dhammapada|Dharmapāda]]'', discovered at Kohmāri Mazār near [[Hotan]] in [[Xinjiang]] in 1893 CE.  From 1994 on, a large number of fragmentary manuscripts of Buddhist texts, seventy-seven altogether,<ref>http://ebmp.org/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911211001/http://ebmp.org/ |date=2014-09-11 }} The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project</ref> were discovered in eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan. These include:<ref>{{iranica|GĀNDHĀRĪ-LANGUAGE|Gāndhārī language}}</ref>

* 29 fragments of birch-bark scrolls of British Library collection consisting of parts of the ''Dharmapada'', ''[[Anavatapta]] Gāthā'', the ''[[Rhinoceros Sutra|Rhinoceros Sūtra]]'', ''[[Sangitiparyaya]]'' and a collection of sutras from the ''[[Ekottara Agama|Ekottara Āgama]]''.
* 129 fragments of palm leaf folios of [[Schøyen Collection]], 27 fragments of palm-leaf folios of Hirayama collection and 18 fragments of  palm leaf folios of Hayashidera collection consisting of the ''[[Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra]]'' and the ''Bhadrakalpikā Sūtra''.
* 24 birch-bark scrolls of Senior collection consists of mostly different sutras and the ''Anavatapta Gāthā''.
* 8 fragments of a single birch-bark scroll and 2 small fragments of another scroll of University of Washington collection consisting of probably an [[Abhidharma]] text or other scholastic commentaries.