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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]
Palm leaf pattachitra which is in Oriya language known as Tala Pattachitra drawn on palm leaf. First of all palm leaves are left for becoming hard after being taken from the tree. Then these are sewn together to form like a canvas. The images are traced by using black or white ink to fill grooves etched on rows of equal-sized panels of palm ...
Indian copper plate inscriptions (tamarashasana), usually record grants of land or lists of royal lineages carrying the royal seal, a profusion of which have been found in South India. Originally, texts were recorded on palm leaves, but when the records were legal documents such as title-deeds they were etched on a cave or temple wall, or more ...
Literary works in India were preserved either in palm leaf manuscripts (implying repeated copying and recopying) or through oral transmission, making direct dating impossible. [22] External chronological records and internal linguistic evidence, however, indicate that extant works were probably compiled sometime between the 4th century BCE and ...
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 ]
Birch bark is still used in some parts of India and Nepal for writing sacred mantras. [5] [15] This practice was first mentioned c. 8th or 9th century CE, in the Lakshmi Tantra. [16] In Indian sculpture, a birch bark manuscript is easily identified by the droop. A palm leaf manuscript is stiff.
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 ...
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).