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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]
It has been widely translated in Indian languages as well as numerous non-Indian languages. Over 200 translations exist in the English language alone, with the first published in 1785 by Charles Wilkins. This is a photograph of a 2-D palm lead manuscript page produced in the 16th century and discovered in Kerala.
This video was shot in w:Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati during Typography Day 2013 when master craftsman Maga Nayak from Raghurajpur, Puri, Odisha was displaying his work and the process publicly. It has 3 major segments; A) Etching on palm leaf using a stylus. B) Coloring the leaf C) Cleaning and creating a manuscript.
The ORI houses over 45,000 Palm leaf manuscript bundles and the 75,000 works on those leaves. The manuscripts are palm leaves cut to a standard size of 150 by 35 mm (5.9 by 1.4 in). Brittle palm leaves are sometimes softened by scrubbing a paste made of ragi and then used by the ancients for writing, similar to the use of papyrus in
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 ...
The palm leaf manuscript shows all signs of age-related decay. Further, the order of the pages are a bit jumbled as the text does not flow from one page to another, but is more meaningfully connected to a distant page inside the book. The manuscript has not been published yet (as of 2018).
A birch bark manuscript from Kashmir of the Rupavatara, a grammatical textbook based on the Sanskrit grammar of Pāṇini (dated 1663) 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 of paper. Evidence of birch bark for writing goes back many ...
The Oriental Research Institute Mysore houses over 33,000 palm leaf manuscripts. It is a research institute which collects, exhibits, edits and publishes rare manuscripts in both Sanskrit and Kannada. It contains many manuscripts, including Sharadatilaka, in Tigalari script.