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A set of Burmese Pali gilt-lacquered palm leaf manuscript leaves and covers, Kammavaca 19th...
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A set of Burmese Pali gilt-lacquered palm leaf manuscript leaves and covers, Kammavaca
19th century
Comprising seven leaves lacquered and gilt in Pali in Burmese square script, and a pair of covers, all mounted om velvet, framed and glazed.
Each leaf 14 cm high x 58 cm wide, overall 186 cm high x 84 cm with frame.
Provenance: Purchased in Singapore in 1999.
Cf. Kammavaca is a Pali term describing an assemblage of passages from the Tripitaka, the Theravada Buddhist canon, which relate to ordination, the bestowing of robes, and other rituals of monastic life. Kammavaca manuscript, such as the present lot, were highly ornamental works that were commissioned by a community as a social work of merit, to be bestowed upon a monastery when a son enters a monastery as a novice or is a novice who is ordained as a monk.
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