This is a fair point, and includes manuscripts used in worship (e.g, prajnaparamita mss written with gold letters). I should qualify my earlier statement to say that ranjana is an uncommon script, reserved for more specialized and elevated manuscripts, especially those regularly used in ritual worship (often of the manuscript itself).
Sam
Actually, besides palm leaf, some of the ones I’ve seen are very ornate, written in silver or gold on black-painted paper similar to Tibetan mthing shog.
Matthew
On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 00:12, Charles DiSimone <
disimone@alumni.stanford.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
Matthew writes:
“Unless I am somehow missing his point, this seems to me not to be correct. I have seen complete manuscripts of the PañcarakSa and of the ASTasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā written in Rañjana, for example.”
I have also seen manuscripts of the very same works noted above in Rañjana. On palm leaf if I remember correctly.
All my best,
Charles
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> On Dec 8, 2024, at 12:09 AM, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Unless I am somehow missing his point, this seems to me not to be correct. I have seen complete manuscripts of the PañcarakSa and of the ASTasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā written in Rañjana, for example.