[INDOLOGY] Question about Nepalese manuscripts

[Harry Spier]

I can confirm that the link to Nepal Mandala on archive.org works.
https://archive.org/details/nepalmandalacult0001mary/page/392/mode/2up?view=theater
Just now I logged in to it and I could borrow and view the entire book.
Strangely yesterday when I tried I couldn't, even when it didn't indicate
someone else was borrowing it.
Harry Spier


On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 7:23 PM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
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=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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