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EAP1150/1/6

Record Id:

040-003541187

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003541181

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100101363891.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

EAP1150/1/6

Title:

Mahārājavaṃsa I

Scope & Content:

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

Collection Area:

Endangered Archives Programme

Project / Collection:

Fragile palm leaves digitisation initiative

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003541181
040-003541187

Is part of:

EAP1150/1 : Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation

EAP1150/1/6 : Mahārājavaṃsa I

Hierarchy:

032-003541181[0006]/040-003541187

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1150/1

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

289 TIFF images

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Burmese

Scripts:

Myanmar (burmese)

Start Date:

1873

End Date:

1873

Date Range:

1873

Era:

Place of Origin:

Burma

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