Based on the handwriting and fonts prevalent in the inscriptions discovered in India from that era, Hoernle suggested the first scribe who wrote Parts I through III likely grew up and came from Kashmir or Udyana (North India) to Kucha (China) because his writing show early Sarada script influences.[1] Part VI, and possibly V and VII were written by scribe(s) who may have come to China from region that is now the central India to Andhra Pradesh, for similar reasons.[15] The writer of part IV appears to have the style of someone used to "writing with a brush", and therefore may have been a local native or a Buddhist monk who came from interior China.[15]