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Or 1044

Record Id:

032-002363335

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002363335

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000094.0x0000ba

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Or 1044

Title:

Sārasaṅgaha

Scope & Content:

Sārasaṅgaha ("Collection of the Essence"), bundles 1-13 (complete). A Pali text originally composed in the 12th–13th century by the Sinhalese monk Siddhattha Thera, a pupil of Buddhappiya Thera. Its themes include the aspiration to become a Buddha, shrines, meditation, theories on rain, wind, gender, biology, nutrition, cosmology and more. The main body consists of citations from the Nikāyas, the Jātakas, the Visuddhimagga and from commentarial literature.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Thai, Lao, Cambodian Collections

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032-002363335

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Hierarchy:

032-002363335

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

312 folios in 13 bundles

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Languages:

Pali

Scripts:

Khmer

Start Date:

1800

End Date:

1899

Date Range:

19th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Palm leaf with gilt and lacquered edges, 13 bundles (bai lan)

Dimensions: 548 mm x 45 mm

Script: 5 lines per side. Khmer script incised and blackened

Binding: Wooden covers, front cover partially with gilt and black lacquer. Cotton wrapper made from two layers, inner layer made from red handwoven cotton, outer layer made from blue printed cotton with flower design

Custodial History:

Note in gilt letters on black lacquer on front cover: 'R. C. Childers Esquire from W. Subhuti Priest'. Venerable Waskaduwe Subhuti (Śrī Subhūti, died 19 April 1917) of Abhinawārāma Temple at Waskaḍuwa worked closely with British Pali scholar Robert Caesar Childers. Ven. Subhuti was editor of Mogallana's Abhidanappadipika and provided Michael Viggo Fausböll, a Danish Pali scholar, with manuscripts for the study and transliteration of Pali scriptures. Childers assisted Fausböll with the edition of The Jataka in original Pali transliteration from Southeast Asian and Singhalese manuscripts. (Source: The Jataka together with its commentary being tales or the anterior births of Gotama Buddha. For the first time published in the original Pali by V. Fausboll. London: Trubner & Co., 1875. BL shelfmark 14098.d.23

Source of Acquisition:

British Museum, 1973

Publications:

San San May and Jana Igunma, Buddhism illuminated: Manuscript art from Southeast Asia (London: British Library 2018), p. 114

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)