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Single-text manuscript containing a liturgical and protective text likely intended for memorization by lay students and novices. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. Incomplete. Has no covers.
The first part of a short version of the Mahāparitta nissaya, a bilingual translation of a collection of eleven protective and liturgical texts, likely intended for memorization by schoolboys. The authorship of this nissaya has not been thoroughly investigated yet. This manuscript omits Maṅgala-...
A notebook containing quotations, scriptural and preaching notes. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. (?) Complete. Has no covers.
A notebook containing highly abbreviated nissaya translations of excrepts from canonical suttas, quotations from Dhammapada and Visuddhimagga, preaching notes on the effects of observing Buddhist moral precepts, and formulas for reflection on the impurity of the body. Extent and format of origi...
Single-text manuscript containing a liturgical and protective text intended for memorization by lay students and novices. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. Incomplete. Has no covers.
Maṅgala-sutta is a canonical discourse of the Buddha on the sublect of "blessings" that had extremely broad use as a protective and liturgical text. Usually, it was the earliest item memorized by schoolboys attending monastic schools after learning the alphabet. This bilingual translation of the...