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    Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves. Palm leaves were used as writing materials in the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast...
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    papyrus, and on paper. In Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, palm leaf manuscripts, with a distinctive long rectangular shape, were used dating back...
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    and Hinduism discovered so far. The manuscript was found in 1906 in the form of a pile of more than 1,000 palm leaf fragments in the Ming-oi, Kizil Caves...
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    known as doub palm, palmyra palm, tala or tal palm, toddy palm, lontar palm, wine palm, ထန်းပင် (htan-pin) or ice apple, is a fan palm native to South...
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  • transformed into a distinct round umbrella shape due to the influence of palm leaf manuscripts and also being influenced by the neighbouring scripts from the Western...
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    discovered an old palm-leaf manuscript of Skanda Purana in a Kathmandu library in Nepal, written in Gupta script. They dated the manuscript to 8th century...
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  • Ola leaf is a palm leaf used for writing in traditional palm-leaf manuscripts and in fortunetelling (horoscopes) in Southern India and Sri Lanka. The...
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    Raghavan, V. (1979). "Preservation of Palm Leaf and Parabaik Manuscripts and Plan for Compilation of a Union Catalogue of Manuscripts" (PDF). UNESCO....
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    Tantra. In Indian sculpture, a birch bark manuscript is easily identified by the droop. A palm leaf manuscript is stiff. On July 26, 1951, during excavations...
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  • preserved leaves from palm trees. The leaves were then bound together to create a complete manuscript. While palm-leaf manuscripts have likely been in use...
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    Kama Sutra (category Indian manuscripts)
    and Mokshasastras, the Kamasastras genre have been preserved in palm leaf manuscripts. The Kamasutra belongs to the Kamasastra genre of texts. Other examples...
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    and Latin translations of C. Lassen in Bonn 1837. There's also another manuscript at the Guimet Museum in Paris in Devanagari script narrating the love...
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    Prajnaparamita Sanskrit palm-leaf manuscript, with 139 leaves and painted wooden covers. According to the colophon, this manuscript was donated by the mother...
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    passed away.: 12, 17  A palm-leaf manuscript found at the Hōryū-ji Temple is the earliest undated extant Sanskrit manuscript of the Heart Sutra. It is...
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    thousand paper and palm leaf manuscripts written in Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu, besides four hundred palm leaf manuscripts in Tigalari script...
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    a palm-leaf manuscript, the original medium for transcribing sacred texts in India. Beside the king are two attendants: one sits reading a palm-leaf manuscript;...
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  • Pecha (category Manuscripts by type)
    earliest existing palm leaf manuscripts date from 200 CE and were in continuous use until the 19th century. The migration of India's manuscript technology to...
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  • Lao Manuscripts hosts 94 digitized palm leaf manuscripts whose title includes the word Sinsai (spelling used by the Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts)....
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  • transcribing the texts written in Karani script etched on palm leaves, which constituted palm-leaf-manuscripts of historical events as well as of scholarly texts...
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    the shrine's complex. A Valluvar statue in yoga position holding a palm leaf manuscript of the Tirukkuṟaḷ sits under the tree. In the shrine dedicated to...
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  • type of palm-leaf manuscript from Indonesia Lontara, the palm-leaf manuscripts of the Buginese people of Sulawesi Borassus flabellifer, a palm known in...
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    Manikkavasagar. The poet chased the writer but without success but the palm leaf manuscript had been seen inside the locked sanctum sanctorum of Thillai Nataraja...
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    Rigveda (section Manuscripts)
    preserved at the Cambridge University Sanskrit Manuscript Library (MS Or.2366). This talapatra palm leaf manuscript was likely copied sometime between mid-18th...
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  • rebellion- a very critical event in early mediaeval history of Bengal. A palm-leaf manuscript was discovered by Haraprasad Shastri from Nepal and published in...
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    common Kurmis. This was the regional form of Kurmali Language. A palm-leaf manuscript of the Charyāpada was rediscovered in the early 20th century by Haraprasad...
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  • straightened, and tied together in what is known as an olla book or palm-leaf manuscript. The inscription process is also done according to traditional techniques...
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    Puranas (section Manuscripts)
    Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts Archived 1 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine, In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Landen Volkenkunde, Manuscripts of Indonesia...
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    piṭaka, meaning "basket", referring to the receptacles in which the palm-leaf manuscripts were kept). Thus, the canon is traditionally known as the Tipiṭaka...
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    on cloth or 'Patta Chitra', paintings on walls or 'Bhitti Chitra' and palm leaf engravings or "Tala Patra Chitra' or "Pothi, Chitra'. The style of all...
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    cluster but placed before any "ya-phalaa". Below is an image of a palm leaf manuscript with Sanskrit written in Grantha script: Kālidāsa's Kumārasambhavam:...
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