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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