EAP1150/1/6

Single-text palm-leaf manuscript being the first bundle of what might have been a two-bundle set. Red lac. covers of which one clearly comes from a different manuscript. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. In its full extent, Mahārājavaṃsa is a 21-volume work (organized into two or three palm-leaf manuscript bundles) belonging to Burmese genre of “great chronicles” that was compiled at the royal court of Ava to serve as an official chronicle of the Nyaungyan dynasty (1597-1752). It commences with the appearance of the universe in the beginning of the world-cycle and the sequence of eleven Mahasamata kings and continues to trace the lineage of the kings of Majjhimadesa, Thayekhitaya, Pagan, Pinya, Sagaing, Ava, Taungngu/Hanthawady, and again Ava (up to King Sane-min).

Extent: An incomplete bundle of 294 inscribed and 2 uninscribed palm-leaf folios organized into nine fascicles. Two red lac. covers.

Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.

Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873

Keywords: History, Buddhism.

This manuscript contains the following 9 texts:

EAP1150/1/6/1: Mahārājavaṃsa 1

• Description: Volume one of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the kings of Majjhimadesa to the lifetime of the Buddha.
• Extent: A fascicle of 10 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. [khi] [4] - khāḥ [13]).
• Condition of original material: Incomplete fascicle, approximately 14 inscribed folios (ff. ka-khā) missing, folios khi, khī, khu and khū damaged with parts of text missing.
• Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.
• Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873

EAP1150/1/6/2: Mahārājavaṃsa 2

• Description: Volume two of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the kings of Majjhimadesa from the lifetime of the Buddha to the third century BCE.
• Extent: A fascicle of 34 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ga [13] - ṅau [47]).
• Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.
• Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1873

EAP1150/1/6/3: Mahārājavaṃsa 3

• Description: Volume three of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events from the thrid century BCE to the eleveth century CE.
• Extent: A fascicle of 33 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṅaṃ [47] - je [81]).
• Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.
• Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1873

EAP1150/1/6/4: Mahārājavaṃsa 4

• Description: Volume four of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events from the eleventh to the twelth centuries.
• Extent: A fascicle of 51 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. jai [81] - ṭāḥ [121]).
• Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.
• Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873

EAP1150/1/6/5: Mahārājavaṃsa 5

• Description: Volume five of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events from the twelth to the late thirteenth centuries.
• Extent: A fascicle of 31 inscribed and one uninscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṭha [121] - ṇā [153]).
• Condition of original material: Incomplete fascicle, approximately 7 inscribed folios (ff. ṭhai-ḍā) missing.
• Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.
• Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873

EAP1150/1/6/6: Mahārājavaṃsa 6

• Description: Volume six of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the fourteenth century.
• Extent: A fascicle of 31 inscribed and 1 uninscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṇi [153] - thaṃ [185]). Folio thau skipped (mistake in foliation).
• Condition of original material: Incomplete fascicle, 1 inscribed folios (f. tī) missing.
• Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.
• Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873

EAP1150/1/6/7: Mahārājavaṃsa 7

• Description: Volume seven of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the late fourteenth to the early fifteenth centuries.
• Extent: A fascicle of 33 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. thāḥ [186] - nai [218]).
• Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.
• Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1873

EAP1150/1/6/8: Mahārājavaṃsa 8

• Description: Volume eight of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the early to the mid-fifteenth century.
• Extent: A fascicle of 35 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. no [218] - be [253]).
• Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.
• Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1873

EAP1150/1/6/9: Mahārājavaṃsa 9

• Description: Volume nine of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the mid-fifteenth to the early sixteenth centuries.
• Extent: A fascicle of 36 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. bai [253] - ye [289]).
• Condition of original material: Folios yū and ye damaged with parts of text missing.
• Custodial history: (donor of the manuscript) = Poṅ Kvai. rvā ne takā Kui Mveḥ Kā smīḥ moṅ nhaṃ.
• Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.
• Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873