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EAP1150/1/102
- Record Id:
- 040-003541283
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003541181
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101363988.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1150/1/102
- Title:
- Mahārājavaṃsa
- Additional Titles:
-
Mahārājavaṃsa I
- Scope & Content:
-
Single-text palm-leaf manuscript being the first bundle of what might have been a two-bundle set. Plain teak covers with vermilion band that do not originally belong to that manuscript. Red lac. leaves. A fragment of inscribed, decorated, woven cotton ribbon, 250 cm (likely, also unrelated to that manuscript originally). 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 commenses 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: One incomplete bundle of 149 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ka - ḍha) organized into seven fascicles. Two plain teak covers with vermilion band. A fragment of inscribed, decorated, woven cotton ribbon, 250 cm.
Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.
Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1867
Keywords: Buddhism, History.
This manuscript contains the following 7 texts:
EAP1150/1/102/1: Mahārājavaṃsa 1
Description: Volume one of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the kings of Majjhimadesa to the lifetime of the Buddha.Extent: One fascicle of 20 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ka [3] - khai [24]).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1867
EAP1150/1/102/2: Mahārājavaṃsa 2
Description: Volume two of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the kings of Majjhimadesa from the lifetime of the Buddha to the third century BCE.Extent: One fascicle of 26 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. kho [24] - ghau [51]), has two folios gaṃ (mistake in foliation).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1867
EAP1150/1/102/3: Mahārājavaṃsa 3
Description: Volume three of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events from the thrid century BCE to the eleveth century CE.Extent: One fascicle of 25 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ghaṃ [51] - caṃ/cāḥ [75]). Caṃ/cāḥ is a single folio (mistake in foliation).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied (?) 1867, probably from an exemplar dated 1852 (see what seems a mistaken copy date on f. caṃ/cāḥ)
EAP1150/1/102/4: Mahārājavaṃsa 4
Description: Volume four of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events from the eleventh to the twelth centuries.Extent: One fascicle of 28 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. cha [76] - jhī [102]).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1867
EAP1150/1/102/5: Mahārājavaṃsa 5
Description: Volume five of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events from the twelth to the late thirteenth centuries.Extent: One fascicle of 26 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. jhu [103] - ṭū [128]).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1867
EAP1150/1/102/6: Mahārājavaṃsa 6
Description: Volume six of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the fourteenth century. Contains also a note (f. ḍhau) on the sequence of fifteen royal cities that are to function as the mainstays of the Buddhist teaching during the five thousand years of its existence.Extent: One fascicle of 24 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṭe [128] - ḍū [152]).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Scribe(s): Scribal colophon (f. ḍū) mentions that the recopying was made to replace the older manuscript.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1867
EAP1150/1/102/7: Mahārājavaṃsa 7
Description: Volume seven of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the late fourteenth to the early fifteenth centuries.Extent: One incomplete fascicle of 6 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ḍe/ḍai [152] - ḍha [158]). Folio ḍe/ḍai is a single folio (mistake in foliation).Condition of original material: Incomplete fascicle, folios from ḍha ff are missing.Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1867
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Fragile palm leaves digitisation initiative
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003541181
040-003541283 - Is part of:
- EAP1150/1 : Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation
EAP1150/1/102 : Mahārājavaṃsa - Hierarchy:
- 032-003541181[0102]/040-003541283
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1150/1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 158 TIFF images
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Burmese
- Scripts:
- Myanmar (burmese)
- Start Date:
- 1867
- End Date:
- 1867
- Date Range:
- 1867
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Burma
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Access is for research purposes only
- Former External References:
- 4510
- Information About Originals:
- The original material is located at the Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation, Nonthaburi, Thailand.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Kulāḥ, Ūḥ, Chronicler of Burmese Kings during time of Buddha
- Subjects:
- Buddhism
History
Mahārājavaṃsa - Places:
- Burma, Asia