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A 19th-century palm-leaf manuscript called kammawa from Bagan, Myanmar. In Myanmar, the palm-leaf manuscript is called pesa (ပေစာ). In the pre-colonial era, along with folding-book manuscripts, pesa was a primary medium of transcribing texts, including religious scriptures, and administrative and juridical records. [20]
Thais also use the fruit to make the steamed fluffy tala palm cake, call “Khanom Tan”. Male inflorescence. In northern India, the fruit is known as Taad Gola in Hindi-Urdu (ताड़ गोला / تاڑ گولا). In Kerala it is called nonku (നൊങ്ക്) whereas in Tamil Nadu, it is called nungu (நுங்கு).
Saraswathi Mahal Library, also called Thanjavur Maharaja Serfoji's Saraswathi Mahal Library is a library located in Thanjavur (Tanjore), Tamil Nadu, India.It is one of the oldest subsisting libraries in Asia [1] established during 16th century by the Nayak kings of Thanjavur and has on display a rare collection of Palm leaf manuscripts and paper written in Tamil and Sanskrit and a few other ...
English: This is one of the oldest surviving and dated Sanskrit palm leaf manuscripts from the Indian subcontinent. It relates to Hinduism, more specifically the Vedic tradition (Shiva-related, Saiva Siddhanta, esoteric tantric Nepalese/Himalayan subschool).
The above palm leaf manuscript pages are from Kerala, in Malayalam script, Sanskrit language. Such manuscripts were produced and preserved in Hindu temples. The image is a part of endangered manuscripts preservation programme supported by Arcadia, a digitization initiative by SAHA: Stirring Action on Heritage and the Arts, with archival support ...
Ola leaf is a palm leaf used for writing in traditional palm-leaf manuscripts and in fortunetelling in Southern India [1] and Sri Lanka. The leaves are from the talipot tree, a type of palm, and fortunes are written on them and read by fortune tellers. [ 2 ]
With regards to the epigraphical sources, the antiquities which display the various historical forms of writing in Odia script include rock-edicts, temple inscriptions, stone-slabs, pillar inscriptions, sculptures, copper-plates, coins and palm-leaf manuscripts, illustrated manuscripts, ivory plates and allied materials.
After Johny reads an article in the Newsweek magazine by a professor at the University of New York, he becomes interested in olai-chuvadi reading or Nadi astrology. The article reveals, "Rajaratnam had gone to the ola-leaf readers." It is said there was a government case against Raj, that he was in the stock business, that he was famous ...