Question
A text made of this material consists of fragmentary Sanskrit treatises on medicine and sparked an archaeological craze in Kucha (“KOO-chuh”) in the 1890s. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this material used to make the Bower Manuscript. Along with palm leaves, this material was commonly used to make Ancient South Asian texts like the Gandhāran Manuscripts.
ANSWER: birch bark [prompt on bark; prompt on birch; reject “wood”]
[10e] The Gandhāran Manuscripts were written using Kharosthi (“kuh-ROASH-tee”), which was contemporaneous with the Brahmi script utilized by this Mauryan emperor to write his Rock and Pillar Edicts.
ANSWER: Ashoka the Great [or Aśoka]
[10m] Other texts written on birch bark include a dialogue between the monk Nāgasena and this 2nd-century BC king. This Indo-Greek king issued coins featuring Athena holding a thunderbolt alongside text in Kharosthi.
ANSWER: Menander [or Menander I Soter; or Milinda; accept Milindapañha or Questions of Milinda]
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