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.