[INDOLOGY] Question about Nepalese manuscripts

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 Dear all,
more elaborate treatments of the development and typology of scripts (also including many tables) used in Nepal are:
 Rājavaṃśī, Śaṅkaramāna. 2002 (VS 2059). Nepālī lipivikāsa. Kathmandu: Śyāma Sundara Rājavaṃśī.https://archive.org/details/nepali-lipi-vihas-by-shankar-man-rajvamshi
Śākya, Hemarāja. 1973 (VS 2030). Nepāla lipi-prakāśa. Kathmandu: Nepāla Rājakīya Prajñā Pratiṣṭhāna. 
https://archive.org/details/NepalLipiPrakashHemrajShakya



Hope it helpsBest wishesAstrid


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    Am Montag, 9. Dezember 2024 um 06:05:43 MEZ hat Charlyn Edwards via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> Folgendes geschrieben:  
 
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Universität Hamburg



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On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 2:24 AM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:



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=theaterand  got the messageAnother 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 themlike 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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