To add to Nibedita Rout’s impressive identification, here is a much more obvious one: it seems that IMG_0278.jpg gives the left-hand edge of a leaf that has the beginning of the Bālakāṇḍa of the Rāmāyaṇa (after the familiar copyists' maṅgala verse śuklāmbaradharaṃ viṣṇuṃ śaśivarṇaṃ caturbhujam, etc.)

Several of the other fragments you show (IMG_0269.jpg to IMG_0274.jpg) just have that same familiar copyists’ maṅgala, along with other formulae of obeisance.

On 05-Jun-2016, at 4:45 PM, Nivedita Rout via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

From: Nivedita Rout <nivi71r@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: Fw: [INDOLOGY] Mystery manuscripts
Date: 5 June 2016 at 4:44:33 PM IST
To: Indology List <indology@list.indology.info>
Reply-To: Nivedita Rout <nivi71r@yahoo.co.in>

To: McComas Taylor <McComas.Taylor@anu.edu.au>
Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2016 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Mystery manuscripts

First of all the images you provide are not in order and not showing full leaves, however I was able to identify only one text, that is "bhadrottpatisa.mgraha" in the folio images of no. IMG_2076 and 77. The Ms is written in Grantha script. The text can be read with the help of the Transcript no. T0806b from the Manuscript Library of the IFP, Pondicherry.

From: McComas Taylor <McComas.Taylor@anu.edu.au>
To: "indology@list.indology.info List" <indology@list.indology.info>
Cc: Nicholas Con Bogiatzis <nick.bogiatzis@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2016 11:01 AM
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Mystery manuscripts

Dear Colleagues

Some weeks ago a friend brought in these mystery manuscripts that he purchased in Tamil Nadu 40 years ago. I have taken a dozen images and zipped them together - we would be very grateful if anyone could help us identify them

https://alliance.anu.edu.au/access/content/user/u3936301/Mysyer_mss/Archive.zip

Thanks in advance

McComas

McComas Taylor, Associate Professor
Reader in Sanskrit
College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University, Tel. + 61 2 6125 3179
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