Marianna Kropf (2005:163 note 140) notes that of the over one hundred manuscripts of this text catalogued in the National archives of Kathmandu the earliest dated one (NGMPP E 1969/1) was written in N.S. 603 (=1492/3 A.D.) , the present two folios might have been written a bit earlier?
See also: Iconography of Grahamātṛka. In: Gail, Adalbert J. / Mevissen, Gerd J.R. / Salomon, Richard (eds.): Script and Image. Papers on Art and Epigraphy. Delhi: 65-98, pls. XVIII-XXIV. 2005.




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