Medical text. [The inside of the first folio has two crude ink drawings of human figures. The last folio includes some Bengali annotations.] Numbered က-ဋေ. Dated 1776.
Six manuscripts of various sizes, written on yellow paper, in the Mughi or Rukheng character, within wooden covers. [12,258, a-f.]
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A pair of wooden binding boards, 51 x 13 cm., the upper with a label with three Persian titles. The lower board is inscribed with three lines of Burmese. Order covers as Add MS 12258. Add MS 12258 C: This is the end portion of Add MS 12257 D ii and has now been incorporated in it.
Paritta texts. The manuscript is in two parts: (1) ff. 1-36 with the following texts: Badhamma cakkaṃ, Saccā, Sivali, Gīrimānanda sutta, Mahā Maṅgala, Ratana, Mora, Dhajakkaṃ, ʾAṭānāṭiya. (2) Another manuscript in a different hand: ff. 37-48 with the following texts and with a discourse on medit...
A dictionary of the Mughi or Rukheng language, explained in Persian; from the collection of Colonel Sir John Murray, Bart., Auditor General of' Bengal, for whose use it was probably compiled. Folio.[12,266]
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The Persian words are from the Farhang-i-Jahāngīrī. The Maghi equivalents are written both in Burmese and Persian character. The manuscript belonged to John Murray, afterwards Sir John McGregor Murray, Bart., who in 1787 was made Lt.Col. in the E.I.Co’s service. Chittagong?