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During the 19th century, investigators discovered another text preserved on papyrus scrolls.

This text, preserved in both Tibetan and Chinese versions, deals with the buddha Vairocana (Japanese: Birushana, or Roshana).

A text preserved in Arabic (see Pines 1961) has Alexander of Aphrodisias criticizing Xenocrates for saying that the (less general) species is prior to the (more general) genus because the latter, being an element in the definitions of the former, is a part of them (and wholes are subsequent to parts).

In the 1760s Paisiy used texts preserved on Mount Athos to write his Slaveno-Bulgarian History. Slaveno-Bulgarian History

Thanks to his technical expertise and power of conjectural divination, Colin had a remarkable gift for the reconstruction and interpretation of fragmentary poetic texts preserved on Egyptian papyri.

Since Mohism split into three schools after Mozi's death, the three sets of chapters may well represent the three sets of texts preserved by the three schools.

From the same period date the so-called rhotacizing texts, preserved in 16th-century copies, which were written in Maramureş, in northern Transylvania, probably under the impetus of the Hussite movement.

It stated his basic theory, based largely on his reading of texts preserved on clay tablets from the pre-Babylonian era in ancient Mesopotamia, the so-called cradle of the civilization of Sumer.

Direct accounts of the Pudgalavāda doctrine survive primarily in the critiques of their opponents (and in three short texts preserved only in Chinese and in the Saṃmitīyanikāyaśāstra).

Condemned by the missionaries as "the Devil's trickery," these written texts preserved knowledge gleaned from centuries of Maya science and mathematics.

Such external testimony — albeit from an unsympathetic source — presents a minor puzzle in the interpretation of Mohist thought, for the texts preserved in the Mozi do not directly advocate self-sacrificing altruism, and at least one clearly rejects it.