[INDOLOGY] Candrikā

[Manu Francis]

Dear Andrew,

Here is an example of rolled and sealed leaves from the BnF:
https://tst-project.github.io/mss/Indien_1037.xml

And attached an article by Eva Wilden. See p. 70.

Yours.

Manu

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Le jeu. 3 juil. 2025 à 00:04, Andrew Ollett via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Another question: I've seen one reference (below) to something called a
> "candrikā" in Sanskrit that was apparently used as a kind of cover for a
> written palm-leaf. It has entered several dictionaries in this sense
> (Kannada candrike, Telugu candrika, Tamil cantirakam). Does anyone have any
> further references for this? Or some references for the practice of rolling
> up written palm leaves and sealing them, which I suspect is what's going on
> here?
>
> Primary sources:
> - Sundarī and Kamalā's Camatkārataraṅgiṇī
> <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.79729/page/n179/mode/2up>
> (comm. on Rājaśēkhara's Viddhaśālabhañjikā)
>
> Andrew
>
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