Manuscripts were generally written by hands on palm leaf, or the specially prepared bark of a tree, which generally grows in the Himalayan region, while inscriptions were writing on a hard surface such as stone surface or metals.
Manuscripts come from Latin word ‘manu’ which means hand and inscription were usually written for the orders of the king which people obeyed.
Manuscripts were written by hands on a palm leaf to save the knowledge of all kinds of subject, while inscriptions were the writing of order on the hard surface like stone surface or metals.