[Wellcome MS Burmese-Pāli 76].

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Kammavaca comprising 3 parts: 76.1. Gilded decorated palm leaves; 3 ff. (ki, ku, ku), 53.7 X 9 cm. : 5 lines, 35 char, in black lacquer, large tamarind-seed script, 50.5 cm. Texts: 1a. Upasampadä, incomplete (ff. ki-ku-b, 1) 1b.Ovâda, incomplete (ff. ku-b, 1-5) -- 76.2. Gilded decorated palm leaves; 3 ff (ka-ki); 54 X 9.8 cm., 5 lines, 38 char, in black lacquer, large tamarind-seed script, 50.5 cm. Borders on f. ka-a have a harisa bird in a medallion within a frame on each side. Text: 1a. Upasampada, incomplete (ff. ka-ki) -- 76.3. Gilded decorated stiffened cloth; 1 f. (khè), the last f. of a text; 54 X 9.2 cm., 5 lines centred, 23 char, in black lacquer, large tamarind-seed script, 32.5 cm. Borders for f. khè-a have a framed deva offering a flower on each side; f. khè-a has 4 deva figures (one [Sakka?] with a sword over his shoulder) with a standing figure in the middle. Text: 13.Samodhanaparivasa, incomplete, end of text (f. khè-a)

Notes

Two cardboard covers covered with a check cotton cloth with black, grey and muted red and yellow. On paper tag in blue Pali pencil: ST//1/9/25//Lot 456, on reverse: 22/-. The f. has been broken and the corners are broken off.

References note

For full details see 'Catalogue of Burmese-Pāli and Burmese manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine' / William Pruitt and Roger Bischoff. London : WIHM, 1998

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