Mahārājavaṃsa I

Single-text palm-leaf manuscript being the first bundle of what might have been a two-bundle set. Plain teak covers with red lac. edges. 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 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 bundle of 271 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ka - be) organized into ten fascicles. Two plain teak covers with red lac. edges. Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1881 Keywords: History, Buddhism. This manuscript contains the following 10 texts: EAP1150/1/184/1: Mahārājavaṃsa 1 Description: Volume one of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the kings of Majjhimadesa to the lifetime of the Buddha. Extent: One fascicle of 21 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ka [3] - kho [23]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1881 EAP1150/1/184/2: 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 28 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. khau [24] - ṅa [50]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1881 EAP1150/1/184/3: Mahārājavaṃsa 3 Description: Volume three of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events from the thrid century BCE to the eleveth century CE. Extent: One fascicle of 27 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṅā [51] - chī [76]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Scribe(s): Probably, novice (kui raṅ) Phui Raṅ Tai (f. chī). Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1881 EAP1150/1/184/4: Mahārājavaṃsa 4 Description: Volume four of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events from the eleventh to the twelth centuries. Extent: One fascicle of 29 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. chu [77] - jho [104]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Scribe(s): Probably, novice (kui raṅ) Phui Raṅ Tai (f. jho). Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1881 EAP1150/1/184/5: 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. jhau [105] - ṭaṃ [129]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Scribe(s): Probably, novice (kui raṅ) Phui Raṅ Tai (f. ḍau). Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1881 EAP1150/1/184/6: Mahārājavaṃsa 6 Description: Volume six of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the fourteenth century. Extent: One fascicle of 24 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṭāḥ [130] - ḍaṃ [152]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1881 EAP1150/1/184/7: Mahārājavaṃsa 7 Description: Volume seven of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the late fourteenth to the early fifteenth centuries. Extent: One fascicle of 27 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ḍāḥ [153] - tā [178]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1881 EAP1150/1/184/8: Mahārājavaṃsa 8 Description: Volume eight of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the early to the mid-fifteenth century. Extent: One fascicle of 30 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ti [179] - dai [207]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1881 EAP1150/1/184/9: Mahārājavaṃsa 9 Description: Volume nine of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the mid-fifteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Extent: One fascicle of 28 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. do [208] - nāḥ [234]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1881 EAP1150/1/184/10: Mahārājavaṃsa 10 Description: Volume ten of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the late fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. Extent: One fascicle of 31 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. pa [235] - be [265]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1881.