[INDOLOGY] Question about Nepalese manuscripts

[Dominik Wujastyk]

I remember finding Mary Slusser's short appendix II in Nepal Mandala
helpful.  It's just a quick overview, but she writes well, which helps.

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   https://archive.org/details/nepalmandalacult0001mary/page/392/mode/2up?view=theater

Jerry Losty told me once that "kuṭila/kuṭilā" was not a valid indigenous
name for a script, but was a neologism created by a nineteenth century
palaeographer, I can't remember who.

Best,
Dominik

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On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 at 15:24, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Thank you Charles,
> You wrote:
>
>>
>> There are a good number of Nepalese scripts that have been used
>> throughout the centuries, *so Nepālākṣarā can mean any one of them *like
>> Rañjana, Bhujimol, etc. The most commonly used one in the past few
>> centuries is Pracalit, which is indeed sometimes called Newari Script, but
>> I suppose all the others might also be called as such by some. Yes, like
>> all Brāhmī derived scripts, Nepalese scripts are generally written without
>> the breaks between words that one finds in Roman script, for example.
>>
> Based on your comment *"**so Nepālākṣarā can mean any one of them *" I'm
> surprised that the  Cambridge university catalogue entries for some NGMCP
> manuscripts lists the script only as .Nepālākṣarā,
> See links below.  Two manuscripts from 19th century and one from 14-15th
> century.
> See:
> https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01386/1
> https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01164-00002/1
> https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-02248/1
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
>
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