Mahārājavaṃsa II

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.