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Fragment 18 (Frame 32)

1. General condition: Very poorly preserved remains broken into many pieces with large portions of text missing.
2. Measurements:   17 cm x 19 cm
                               20 lines on r, 19 lines on v
                               40 a/l on r and v
3. Hands: Scribe 5 on both sides.
4. Contents: Not identified dogmatical text, closely related to that of fragments 14 and 16.

Content

Non-canonical scholastic texts, Group B

Another group of dogmatical texts consists of fragments 14, 16 and 18 which are in a rather poor state of preservation. Fragments 14 and 16 were written by the same scribe, but belong according to their differing formats and pens to different scrolls.

Fragment 18 was most probably written by scribe 5 who is also responsible for fragments 4 and 11 of group A.

All fragments of group B contain passages like yadi jive bhaveadi „if he is meditating upon life“ and yadi dhama bhaveadi „if he is meditating upon dharma“. This and a number of terminological coincidences indicate their association to the same text (tradition). Due to their bad condition it is at present difficult to say anything more detailed about their contents.

Cf. Strauch 2007: 35, ch. 4.2.3.