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Title
Milindapanha
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Swift Family Collection of Palm Leaf Manuscripts
Rights Information
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Description
Text on handwritten card: “Questions of King Milinda – The Great King Meander who lived in the second century B.C. and ruled over a part of Hindustan India. Six volumes m.s. Laos-Indo-China.
Label on the bamboo mat: “Questions of King Milinda 2nd Century B.C.”
Label on the wooden board: The six volume M.S. Laos-Indo-China. The questions of king Melinda, the Greek King Meander, who lived in the second century B.C. and ruled over a part of Hindustan, India.”
2 roughly hewn plain wooden covers. 6 bundles. Decorative designs at some places such as around string holes of front and last pages. Handwritten card in English, laminated.
Bundle 1
All leaves contain 5 lines.
Ff 4MS PL4251 no. 3:1
Bundle 2
Leaf 19R contains 4 lines.
Ff 4MS PL4251 no. 3:2
Bundle 3
Ff 4MS PL4251 no. 3:3
Bundle 4
Ff 4MS PL4251 no. 3:4
Bundle 5
Ff 4MS PL4251 no. 3:5
Bundle 6
Leaf 23R contains 5 lines and leaf 23V contains 3 lines. Leaf 24 is blank.
Ff 4MS PL4251 no. 3:6
Type
text
Extent
6 bundles; 21 ¼ x 2 ½ inch.
Identifier
ff 4MS PL4251 no. 3
ark:/13030/hb7m3nb8hh
swift_cubanc_18_1_00030171
Language
Tai languages
Subject
Manuscripts, Northern Thai

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