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.]
Scope & Content:
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...