{ "identifier": [ { "accession_number": "nn12217", "type": "accession number", "value": "nn12217", "primary": true } ], "loan": { "value": "N" }, "admin": { "processed": 1741975362260, "sequence": 7338022, "uid": "hmc-object-120254", "added": 1663962005326, "stream": "collections-online", "id": "object-120254", "source": "hmc", "uuid": "a5dffaca-7974-3227-a6a8-aa22efb5482b" }, "description": [ { "type": "catalogue description", "value": "Palm leaf Sanskrit text in the Grantha script. References to \u2018G\u0101yatr\u012b\u2019, so presumably a Hindu application of the Vedic term. The lower folio is apparently the final one, with 2\u00bd lines that may be a faintly written colophon. Note: Grantha script was widely used between the 6th century and the 19th century CE by Tamil speakers in Southern India, particularly in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, to write Sanskrit and classical Manipravalam, and is still in restricted use in traditional vedic schools (veda p\u0101\u1e6dha\u015b\u0101l\u0101). It evolved from the ancient Br\u0101hm\u012b script and is therefore classified under the Brahmic family of scripts. G\u0101yatr\u012b is the feminine form of g\u0101yatra, a Sanskrit word for a song or a hymn, having a Vedic meter of 3 padas or lines of 8 syllables. In particular it refers to the Gayatri mantra, and the Hindu goddess Gayatri as that mantra personified.", "primary": true }, { "sort": "01", "type": "original description", "value": "Two manuscript leaves." }, { "historical": true, "sort": "01", "type": "object description", "value": "Two manuscript leaves with Sinhalese script." }, { "note": [ { "value": "From Clifford Wright's commentary." } ], "attribution": { "date": [ { "earliest": 2014, "value": "2014-01-28", "latest": 2014, "primary": true } ], "attributor": "Crowley, Tom" }, "sort": "09", "type": "description (online)", "value": "Palm leaf Sanskrit text in the Grantha script." }, { "date": [ { "earliest": 2014, "value": "2014-01-28", "latest": 2014, "primary": true } ], "note": [ { "value": "This commentary provides a summary of the translation work carried out by Clifford Wright on NNs 12217, 15455, 15462, 15446,7,8 & 9, 15450 and 15452-15462" } ], "attribution": { "date": [ { "earliest": 2014, "value": "2014-01-28", "latest": 2014, "primary": true } ], "attributor": "Wright, J. C.", "source": "object" }, "historical": true, "sort": "110", "type": "commentary", "value": "Where I have gone to the trouble of transcribing specimens, I have included the result, without ever feeling that to translate it would serve any useful purpose. The amount of square-bracketing will show you how defectively copied such manuscripts invariably are (amulets or aides-memoire, rather than normal literature). The Skt Vaidyajivana and Viratantra, etc., and the Bundeli Hindi Rasikapriya are known literary works. (but I haven't tried to locate and compare published editions). \n\nThe fact that we have Tamil grantha, Panjabi gurmukhi, and Kashmiri sharada scripts to contend with, as well as various versions of nagari, limits my powers. I have little to contribute on the Grantha and Sharada: I don't think the results would make it worth while my practicing them to gain fluency.\n\nOne has to face it, these are no literary-historical treasures, but the ill-copied remnants of pandits' and priests' late medieval stock-in-trade. And the generation that still had insightful links with that past has died out during my lifetime\n\nThe one text that could, with not too much effort, be matched up with published versions is the Rasikapriya. The others are, so far as I know, titles and authors traceable only in MS catalogues, and are such that, e.g., your grammatical Siddhantacandrika of Ramasrama bears a title that occurs attributed to some other author's name in a catalogue: this doesn't, however, preclude its being the same text. The pandit who owned it would have had no need to read, and wouldn't necessarily have been able to understand, this treatise on the present tense of the verb 'to be' (etc.?): but will have been proud to own it and preserve it - for a posterity that sadly has no further use for it." }, { "date": [ { "earliest": 2014, "value": "2014-01-29", "latest": 2014, "primary": true } ], "attribution": { "date": [ { "earliest": 2014, "value": "2014-01-29", "latest": 2014, "primary": true } ], "attributor": "Wright, J. C.", "source": "object" }, "sort": "110", "type": "commentary", "value": "Palm leaf Sanskrit text in the Grantha script*. References to \u2018G\u0101yatr\u012b\u2019\u2020, so presumably a Hindu application of the Vedic term. The lower folio is apparently the final one, with (on recto of nn12217ii_001-R.jpg, partly enlarged in nn12217ii_002-R.jpg) 2\u00bd lines that may be a faintly written colophon, but I can\u2019t read it. The upper folio does not seem to be the beginning of the text.\n\n*Grantha script was widely used between the 6th century and the 19th century CE by Tamil speakers in Southern India, particularly in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, to write Sanskrit and classical Manipravalam, and is still in restricted use in traditional vedic schools (veda p\u0101\u1e6dha\u015b\u0101l\u0101). It evolved from the ancient Br\u0101hm\u012b script and is therefore classified under the Brahmic family of scripts.\n\n\u2020 G\u0101yatr\u012b is the feminine form of g\u0101yatra, a Sanskrit word for a song or a hymn, having a Vedic meter of 3 padas or lines of 8 syllables. In particular it refers to the Gayatri mantra, and the Hindu goddess Gayatri as that mantra personified." }, { "attribution": { "date": [ { "earliest": 2015, "value": "2015-01-23", "latest": 2015, "primary": true } ], "attributor": "Wright, Clifford" }, "type": "description", "value": "Palm leaf Sanskrit text in the Grantha script. 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