A New Version of the Gandhari Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-Birth StoriesThis volume continues the detailed examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls extremely fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch bark rolls. Although their provenance is uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from Hadda in eastern Afghanistan and were most likely written in the early first century A. D. during the reign of the Saka rulers, making them the oldest known Buddhist manuscripts. Fragments 16 and 25 are