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    Birch bark manuscripts are documents written on pieces of the inner layer of birch bark, which was commonly used for writing before the mass production...
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    Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula. The strong and water-resistant cardboard-like...
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    climbing a birch tree till it bent, till it gave and swooped to the ground, but that's what boys did in those days". Birch bark Birch bark manuscript Taxonomy...
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    famous 5th-century CE Indian manuscript called the Bower Manuscript discovered in Chinese Turkestan, was written on birch-bark sheets shaped in the form...
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    The Bakhshali manuscript is an ancient Indian mathematical text written on birch bark that was found in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali, Mardan (near...
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    Gupta script (late Brahmi script) on birch bark, it is variously dated in 5th to early 6th century. The Bower manuscript includes the oldest dated fragments...
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    Gandharan manuscript fragments from the first half of the 1st century CE, encompassing twenty‐seven birchbark scrolls. These birch bark manuscripts were stored...
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    and are in Gandhari language. The collection includes birch bark scrolls and palm-leaf manuscripts. Acquired by the British Library since 1994, they have...
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    of birch bark with writing on it have been found, and continue to be discovered. In Russia, birch bark manuscripts are called beresta ('birch bark', plural:...
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    is a hapax legomenon of the known corpus of the Medieval Russian birch bark manuscripts. The word occurs in inscription no. 600 from Novgorod, dated ca...
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    [kəɫbɐˈsa]), mentioned as early as the 12th century[citation needed] in Birch bark manuscript number 842. In the Russian language the word kolbasa refers to all...
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  • by Andrey Zaliznyak to describe the Old East Slavic dialect found in birch bark writings (berestyanaya gramota). Dating from the 11th to 15th centuries...
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    found. If the ancient surfaces for writing Sanskrit were palm leaves, tree bark and cloth – the same as those in later times – these have not survived. According...
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    Sanskritized. Until 1994, the only Gāndhāri manuscript available to the scholars was a birch bark manuscript of a Buddhist text, the Dharmapāda, discovered...
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    quite brittle. The heartwood is pink or light reddish brown. The bark of Himalayan birch was used centuries ago in India as paper for writing lengthy scriptures...
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  • 17th-century birch bark manuscript of Pāṇini's grammar treatise from Sharada Peeth...
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    ritual, Kashmiri Pandit theologians across Kashmir would place their manuscripts in covered platters before idols of the goddess Sharada, to obtain her...
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  • North Russian dialects since the 14th century). It is found in birch bark manuscripts and in some other Russian texts. Other glyphs could be used in the...
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  • The birch bark letter given the document number 292 is the oldest known document in any Finnic language. The document is dated to the beginning of the...
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    grivna but a synonym for it. This is attested in a 13th-century birch bark manuscript from Novgorod, where both ruble and grivna referred to 204 grams...
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    angel, its name is spelled in various ways: Two mid-12th century birch bark manuscripts were found apparently containing the archangel's name, spelled as...
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    through an oral tradition for centuries before they were written down in manuscript form. While most Sanskrit texts were composed in ancient India, others...
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  • the Mahayana tradition. In 2018, the discovery of fragments of a birch bark manuscript in the Gāndhārī language and written in Kharoṣṭhī script was announced...
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  • Atharvaveda manuscripts found in Pune, India The Kashmiri Paippalada Recension of the Atharvaveda, Images of 16th century birch-bark manuscript of Atharvaveda...
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    unearthed over a thousand of birch bark manuscripts, used mostly to document various business issues. Currently, these manuscripts serve as the main source...
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  • an account of his ancestors. The only known manuscript of Prithviraja Vijaya is a birch bark manuscript written in Sharada script. It was discovered...
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    Bhasya or deciphering commentary that fills in the "weft". The oldest manuscripts that have survived into the modern era that contain extensive sutras...
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  • 17th-century birch bark manuscript of Pāṇini's grammar treatise from Kashmir in the north of Gandhara, Pāṇini is considered first grammarian in the world...
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    century AD Baburnama, Persian, Paper, AD 1598 Balabodhini, Sanskrit, Birch-bark manuscript, 12th century AD Gita Govinda of Jayadeva, Sanskrit, Palm leaf;...
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    The first ten fascicles of the northern edition may be based on a birch-bark manuscript from North-Western India that Dharmakṣema brought with him, which...
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