Dear all
In Nepal we have hundreds of rolled up sealed  palm leaf strips 
The oldest probably from 1,420 CE

However they are tightly rolled up with no visible air space and then sealed. I will look for an example

They usually contain records of land sales, rent and the like

Many have been published by my late friend Bernhard  Kölver


I vaguely recall that even older ones have been found in a Patan/lalitpur monastery. Will look it up

Michael Witzel  ( residence : Zushi Japan)

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On Jul 4, 2025, at 00:04, Manu Francis via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:


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@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 (comm. on Rājaśēkhara's Viddhaśālabhañjikā)

Andrew

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