Scribal Conventions While transcribing the sixth chapter (adhyāya) of the Sūtrasthāna of the Suśrutasaṃhitā from an old handwritten manuscript in Newari script, MS Kathmandu NAK 1-1079, I came upon the conjunct consonants ñc, ñj (Devanāgarī ञ्च ञ्ज), etc. Samples are given in the figure below. These conjunct consonants seemed to me to have an initial…