[INDOLOGY] Question about Nepalese manuscripts

[Harry Spier]

> Patrick Olivelle wrote:
> The Archive does not permit the view of pages.
>

I just tried the link
https://archive.org/details/nepalmandalacult0001mary/page/392/mode/2up?view=theater
and  got the message
Another patron is using this book. Please check back later.Another patron
is using this book. Please check back later.
Presumably that's the problem.
Harry Spier

> On Dec 8, 2024, at 5:27 PM, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>    -
>    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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