[INDOLOGY] Question about Nepalese manuscripts
Samuel Grimes
grimessm at gmail.com
Sat Dec 7 23:27:09 UTC 2024
This is a fair point, and includes manuscripts used in worship (e.g,
prajnaparamita mss written with gold letters). I should qualify my earlier
statement to say that ranjana is an uncommon script, reserved for more
specialized and elevated manuscripts, especially those regularly used in
ritual worship (often of the manuscript itself).
Sam
On Sat, Dec 7, 2024 at 6:20 PM Matthew Kapstein <mattkapstein at proton.me>
wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from Proton Mail <https://proton.me/mail/home> for iOS
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 00:12, Charles DiSimone <
> disimone at alumni.stanford.edu
> <On+Sun,+Dec+8,+2024+at+00:12,+Charles+DiSimone+%3C%3Ca+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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