Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Container Reference (shelfmark): EAP373/42 / Place: India, Asia - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) EAP373/42 Place India, Asia

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/42/1
Title:: Du Kai Seng [18th century]
Scope & Content:: This is a fortune telling manuscript. There are images of pairs of chicken legs with thin bamboo sticks attached to them. And depending on these images, the placement of the bamboo sticks, fortune telling and procastination of any kind of good or bad happenings are done.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 200 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/42/2
Title:: Single Folio [18th century]
Scope & Content:: It contains a Dam Phi mantra. It is written that after 10 days of the death of a person he becomes a Dam, after 20 days he becomes the household diety
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 2 tiff images

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