Inscription, : This is a Yuddhakāṇḍa selection from a version of Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa, and I have found the text in a publication (in Sanskrit). It was extremely difficult to find this text (I spent many many hours in the library trying to find it!), but just a few days ago I was able to find the text! In the manuscript, so much of the text was missing from the fringes, that it was nearly impossible to translate (a little dot above a syllable in Sanskrit can mean a world of difference in translation). This text, although part of the Yuddhakāṇḍa, is from the appendix to the critical edition, meaning that the text is not found in the southern recension of the text, and is likely only in some northern families of Rāmāyaṇa texts. I haven't found any translations for the appendices, but I have emailed some Rāmāyaṇa specialists to see if they are familiar with any publications that have translated the appendices. The good news is that I am able to hypothesize what the missing text is for this manuscript, since much of the remaining text matches the Sanskrit publication quite well. If there is an English publication out there, I will provide a translation from it, otherwise translating this will be much more reasonable now that I have a good guess as to the missing letters from each line. Although this is still pending, I'm so glad that all of my work on the manuscript didn't lead us to a dead end! [MS: Never heard back from JB-H to complete this translation]