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 

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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:
>
> 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.