[INDOLOGY] Question about Nepalese manuscripts

Matthew Kapstein mattkapstein at proton.me
Sat Dec 7 23:19:58 UTC 2024


Actually, besides palm leaf, some of the ones I’ve seen are very ornate, written in silver or gold on black-painted paper similar to Tibetan mthing shog.

Matthew

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On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 00:12, Charles DiSimone <[disimone at alumni.stanford.edu](mailto:On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 00:12, Charles DiSimone <<a href=)> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Matthew writes:
>
> “Unless I am somehow missing his point, this seems to me not to be correct. I have seen complete manuscripts of the PañcarakSa and of the ASTasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā written in Rañjana, for example.”
>
> I have also seen manuscripts of the very same works noted above in Rañjana. On palm leaf if I remember correctly.
>
> All my best,
> Charles
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 8, 2024, at 12:09 AM, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> Unless I am somehow missing his point, this seems to me not to be correct. I have seen complete manuscripts of the PañcarakSa and of the ASTasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā written in Rañjana, for example.
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