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EAP1150/1/199
- Record Id:
- 040-003541380
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003541181
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101364095.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1150/1/199
- Title:
- Mahārājavaṃsa II
- Scope & Content:
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Single-text palm-leaf manuscript being the second bundle of what might have been a two-bundle set. Plain teak covers. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Short fragment of decorated woven cotton ribbon. 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: 1 palm-leaf manuscript.
Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.
Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1867-8
Keywords: Didacticisms, History, Buddhism.
This manuscript contains the following 11 texts:
EAP1150/1/199/1: Mahārājavaṃsa 11
Description: Volume eleven of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the sixteenth century.Extent: One fascicle of 33 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ka-go).Condition of original material: Incomplete fascicle, ff. ku-gī missing.Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1867
EAP1150/1/199/2: Mahārājavaṃsa 12
Description: Volume twelve of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the sixteenth century.Extent: gau-gha.Condition of original material: Incomplete fascicle, missing folios after gha.Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1867
EAP1150/1/199/3: Mahārājavaṃsa 14
Description: Volume fourteen of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the sixteenth century.Extent: jai-jaṃ.Condition of original material: Incomplete fascicle, missing folios after jaṃ.Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1867
EAP1150/1/199/4: Mahārājavaṃsa 15
Description: Volume fifteen of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the sixteenth century.Extent: One fascicle of 27 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṭa-ḍi).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1867
EAP1150/1/199/5: Mahārājavaṃsa 16
Description: Volume sixteen of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the sixteenth century.Extent: One fascicle of 28 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ḍī-ṇe).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1867
EAP1150/1/199/6: Mahārājavaṃsa 17
Description: Volume seventeen of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the seventeenth century.Extent: One fascicle of 30 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṇai-da).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1867
EAP1150/1/199/7: Mahārājavaṃsa 18
Description: Volume eighteen of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the seventeenth century.Extent: One fascicle of 28 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. dā-nu).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1867
EAP1150/1/199/8: Mahārājavaṃsa 19
Description: Volume nineteen of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the seventeenth century.Extent: One fascicle of 27 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. nū-phau).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1867
EAP1150/1/199/9: Mahārājavaṃsa 20
Description: Volume twenty of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the seventeenth century.Extent: One fascicle of 23 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. phaṃ-bho).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1867
EAP1150/1/199/10: Mahārājavaṃsa 21
Description: Volume twenty one of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the seventeenth to the early eighteenth centuries.Extent: One fascicle of 29 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. bhau-rā).Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1868
EAP1150/1/199/11: Dhammamālā
Description: Misplaced folio from a preaching manual.Extent: One folio.Additional date information: Copied c. 19th century
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Fragile palm leaves digitisation initiative
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003541181
040-003541380 - Is part of:
- EAP1150/1 : Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation
EAP1150/1/199 : Mahārājavaṃsa II - Hierarchy:
- 032-003541181[0199]/040-003541380
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1150/1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 216 TIFF images
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Burmese
- Scripts:
- Myanmar (burmese)
- Start Date:
- 1862
- End Date:
- 1873
- Date Range:
- c 1867-c 1868
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Burma
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Access is for research purposes only
- Former External References:
- 7784
- 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
Didacticisms
History
Mahārājavaṃsa - Places:
- Burma, Asia