Caryagitikosa

The discovery of the caryagitikosa manuscript by Mahamahopadhyaya haraprasad Sastri is one of the most significant events in the history of the Eastern New Indo Aryan languages. In 1907 A.D., during histhird visit to Nepal in search of Buddhist scriptures, Sastri discovered the Cgk. text in the Raj Darbar Library of Nepal and subsequently published it in Bengali, with three other Mss., in 1916 A.D., from bangiya Sahitya Parisat, Calcutta, under the title, hajar bacharer purana bangala bhasay bauddha gan o doha (the Buddhist songs and dohas written in thousand years old Bengali language). Sastri published the four Mss. in one volume under the wrong impression that all of them were written in the earliest form of the Bengali language.carya songs available in the Cgk. Ms., are written in Bengali, and the doha songs available in the three other Mss. are composed in eastern Apabhramsa.