Mixed Bundle

Multiple-text palm-leaf manuscript being the first bundle of two-bundle manuscript set bound together with a fascicle from another manuscript. Plain teak covers with red lac. edges. Gilded leaves with vermilion band, gilding scratched off. Extent: One bundle comprised of 242 palm-leaf folios organized into two fascicles. Plain teak covers with red lac. edges. Condition of original material: incomplete manuscript, 5 folios (ff. chā-chū) missing. Additional date information: Copied c. 1870s-1880s Keywords: Abhidhamma, Buddhism, Remove, Languages and Grammar. This manuscript contains the following 2 texts: EAP1150/1/132/1: Maṇisāramañjūsā pāṭha I Description: A commentary on the Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha, an Abhidhamma handbook that served as the foundation of monastic curriculum in the given domain of Buddhist learning. Conforming to a common transmission pattern, the manuscript which is the first bundle of a two-bundle set contains sections one to five (the second bundle should have contained sections six to nine). Extent: One fascicle of 224 inscribed and one uninscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ka [4] - na [228]). Condition of original material: incomplete fascicle, 5 folios (ff. chā-chū) missing. Author(s)/Creator(s): Ariyavaṃsadhammasenapati. Additional date information: Compiled in 1466, copied 1877 EAP1150/1/132/2: Moggallāna Ṇvādi-vutti pāṭha Description: Moggallāna Ṇvādi-vutti is a work by Saṅgharakkhita written to supplement Moggallānavyākaraṇa (one of the standard works on Pali grammar alongside with Kaccāyana). In addition to being transmitted as an independent text, it also became incorporated into the original Moggallāna's work as its seventh section. In Burma it was also frequently transmitted together with Moggallānapadasādhana. The separate transmission of this text in the manuscript in question was a custodial, rather than editorial decision for this fascicle was originally copied as a part of a different manuscript (see also column I). Extent: One fascicle of 17 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. da [229] - dhu [243]). Condition of original material: As suggested by non-sequential foliation and different number of lines per folio (11 lpf in fascicle two versus 10 lpf in fascicle one), originally this fascicle was copied as a part of a different bundle but was cut and gilded to form a part of the same manuscript and fascicle one. Author(s)/Creator(s): Saṅgharakkhita. Additional date information: Not dated, copied c. 1870s or 1880s.