Mahārājavaṃsa I

Single-text palm-leaf manuscript being the first bundle of what might have been a two-bundle set. Red lac. covers of which one clearly comes from a different manuscript. 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 commences 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: An incomplete bundle of 294 inscribed and 2 uninscribed palm-leaf folios organized into nine fascicles. Two red lac. covers. Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873 Keywords: History, Buddhism. This manuscript contains the following 9 texts: EAP1150/1/6/1: Mahārājavaṃsa 1 Description: Volume one of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the kings of Majjhimadesa to the lifetime of the Buddha. Extent: A fascicle of 10 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. [khi] [4] - khāḥ [13]). Condition of original material: Incomplete fascicle, approximately 14 inscribed folios (ff. ka-khā) missing, folios khi, khī, khu and khū damaged with parts of text missing. Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873 EAP1150/1/6/2: Mahārājavaṃsa 2 Description: Volume two of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the kings of Majjhimadesa from the lifetime of the Buddha to the third century BCE. Extent: A fascicle of 34 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ga [13] - ṅau [47]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1873 EAP1150/1/6/3: Mahārājavaṃsa 3 Description: Volume three of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events from the thrid century BCE to the eleveth century CE. Extent: A fascicle of 33 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṅaṃ [47] - je [81]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1873 EAP1150/1/6/4: Mahārājavaṃsa 4 Description: Volume four of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events from the eleventh to the twelth centuries. Extent: A fascicle of 51 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. jai [81] - ṭāḥ [121]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873 EAP1150/1/6/5: Mahārājavaṃsa 5 Description: Volume five of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events from the twelth to the late thirteenth centuries. Extent: A fascicle of 31 inscribed and one uninscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṭha [121] - ṇā [153]). Condition of original material: Incomplete fascicle, approximately 7 inscribed folios (ff. ṭhai-ḍā) missing. Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873 EAP1150/1/6/6: Mahārājavaṃsa 6 Description: Volume six of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the fourteenth century. Extent: A fascicle of 31 inscribed and 1 uninscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṇi [153] - thaṃ [185]). Folio thau skipped (mistake in foliation). Condition of original material: Incomplete fascicle, 1 inscribed folios (f. tī) missing. Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873 EAP1150/1/6/7: Mahārājavaṃsa 7 Description: Volume seven of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the late fourteenth to the early fifteenth centuries. Extent: A fascicle of 33 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. thāḥ [186] - nai [218]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1873 EAP1150/1/6/8: Mahārājavaṃsa 8 Description: Volume eight of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the early to the mid-fifteenth century. Extent: A fascicle of 35 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. no [218] - be [253]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied c. 1873 EAP1150/1/6/9: Mahārājavaṃsa 9 Description: Volume nine of Mahārājavaṃsa covering the events of the mid-fifteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Extent: A fascicle of 36 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. bai [253] - ye [289]). Condition of original material: Folios yū and ye damaged with parts of text missing. Custodial history: (donor of the manuscript) = Poṅ Kvai. rvā ne takā Kui Mveḥ Kā smīḥ moṅ nhaṃ. Author(s)/Creator(s): Attributed to Ūḥ Kulāḥ. Additional date information: Composed in c. 1714-1720, copied 1873.