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Palm-leaf manuscript, the Glossary

Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves.^[1]

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Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat (អង្គរវត្ត, "City/Capital of Temples") is a Hindu-Buddhist temple complex in Cambodia.

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae is a family of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales.

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Arjunawiwaha

Arjunawiwāha was the first kakawin to appear in the East Javan period of the Javanese classical Hindu-Buddhist era in the 11th-century.

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Bagaya Monastery

The Bagaya Monastery (ဘားဂရာ ကျောင်း), located in Inwa, Mandalay Region, Burma (Myanmar) is a Buddhist monastery built on the southwest of Inwa Palace.

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Bali

Bali (English:; ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.

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The Balinese script, natively known as Aksarä Bali and Hanacaraka, is an abugida used in the island of Bali, Indonesia, commonly for writing the Austronesian Balinese language, Old Javanese, and the liturgical language Sanskrit.

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Banteay Srei

Banteay Srei (បន្ទាយស្រី) is a 10th century CE Cambodian temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva and Parvati.

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Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Odisha, located in the Khordha district.

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Birch bark

Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula.

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Birch bark manuscript

Birch bark manuscripts are documents written on pieces of the inner layer of birch bark, which was commonly used for writing before the mass production of paper.

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Borassus

Borassus (palmyra palm) is a genus of five species of fan palms, native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Papua New Guinea.

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Borassus flabellifer

Borassus flabellifer, commonly known as doub palm, palmyra palm, tala or tal palm, toddy palm, lontar palm, wine palm, or ice apple, is a fan palm native to South Asia (especially in Bangladesh, East India, and South India) and Southeast Asia.

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Bower Manuscript

The Bower Manuscript is a collection of seven fragmentary Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit treatises found buried in a Buddhist memorial stupa near Kucha, northwestern China.

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Brahmic scripts

The Brahmic scripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugida writing systems.

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Bujangga Manik

Bujangga Manik is one of the precious remnants of Old Sundanese literature.

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Burmese chronicles

The royal chronicles of Myanmar (မြန်မာ ရာဇဝင် ကျမ်းများ; also known as Burmese chronicles) are detailed and continuous chronicles of the monarchy of Myanmar (Burma).

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Cambodia

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Cambodian Civil War

The Cambodian Civil War (សង្គ្រាមស៊ីវិលកម្ពុជា, UNGEGN) was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge, supported by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong) against the government forces of the Kingdom of Cambodia and, after October 1970, the Khmer Republic, which had succeeded the kingdom (both supported by the United States and South Vietnam).

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Cambridge University Library

Cambridge University Library is the main research library of the University of Cambridge.

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Carita Parahyangan

Carita Parahyangan (Tale of Parahyangan, official Sundanese script) is a text contained in a single manuscript written around the late 16th century, registered as Kropak 406 from the former collection of the Bataviaasch Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen (Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences), now in the Perpustakaan Nasional (National Library) in Jakarta.

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Central Asia

Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.

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Chinese Turkestan

Chinese Turkestan, also spelled Chinese Turkistan, is a geographical term or historical region corresponding to the region of the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang (south of the Tian Shan mountain range) or Xinjiang as a whole which was under the rule of the Qing dynasty of China.

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Codex

The codex (codices) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Palm-leaf manuscript and codex are manuscripts by type.

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Devadasi

In India, a devadasi is a female artist who is dedicated to the worship and service of a deity or a temple for the rest of her life.

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Devanagari

Devanagari (देवनागरी) is an Indic script used in the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Folding-book manuscript

Folding-book manuscripts are a type of writing material historically used in Mainland Southeast Asia, particularly in the areas of present-day Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Palm-leaf manuscript and Folding-book manuscript are manuscripts by type.

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Gandhāran Buddhist texts

The Gandhāran Buddhist texts are the oldest Buddhist manuscripts yet discovered, dating from about the 1st century BCE to 3rd century CE and found in the northwestern outskirts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Grammar

In linguistics, a grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers.

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Hindu philosophy

Hindu philosophy or Vedic philosophy is the set of Indian philosophical systems that developed in tandem with the religion of Hinduism during the iron and classical ages of India.

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Hindu temple

A Hindu temple, also known as Mandir, Devasthanam, Pura, or Koil, is a sacred place where Hindus worship and show their devotion to deities through worship, sacrifice, and prayers.

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Hindu texts

Hindu texts or Hindu scriptures are manuscripts and voluminous historical literature which are related to any of the diverse traditions within Hinduism. Palm-leaf manuscript and Hindu texts are Hindu literature.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Ho trai

A ho trai (หอไตร) is the library of a Thai Buddhist temple.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official and national language of Indonesia.

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Intaglio (printmaking)

Intaglio is the family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink.

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Jain temple

A Jain temple, Derasar (Gujarati: દેરાસર) or Basadi (Kannada: ಬಸದಿ) is the place of worship for Jains, the followers of Jainism.

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Java

Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.

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Javanese script

The Javanese script (natively known as Aksara Jawa, Hanacaraka, Carakan, and Dentawyanjana) is one of Indonesia's traditional scripts developed on the island of Java.

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Kakawin Sutasoma

Kakawin Sutasoma is an Old Javanese poem in poetic meters (kakawin or kavya).

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Kama Sutra

The Kama Sutra (कामसूत्र) is an ancient Indian Hindu Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment.

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Kannada script

The Kannada script (IAST: Kannaḍa lipi; obsolete: Kanarese or Canarese script in English) is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write Kannada, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka.

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Khmer language

Khmer (ខ្មែរ, UNGEGN) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people and the official and national language of Cambodia.

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Khmer script

Khmer script (អក្សរខ្មែរ)Huffman, Franklin.

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Kizil Caves

The Kizil Caves (also romanized as Qizil or Qyzyl; translation; l) are a set of Buddhist rock-cut caves located near Kizil Township (labels) in Baicheng County, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

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Laos

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.

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Lombok

Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.

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Lontara script

The Lontara script, also known as the Bugis script, Bugis-Makassar script, or Urupu Sulapa’ Eppa’ "four-cornered letters", is one of Indonesia's traditional scripts developed in the South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi region.

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Majapahit

Majapahit (ꦩꦗꦥꦲꦶꦠ꧀), also known as Wilwatikta (ꦮꦶꦭ꧀ꦮꦠꦶꦏ꧀ꦠ), was a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist thalassocratic empire in Southeast Asia that was based on the island of Java (in modern-day Indonesia).

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Matha

A matha (मठ), also written as math, muth, mutth, mutt, or mut, is a Sanskrit word that means 'institute or college', and it also refers to a monastery in Hinduism.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Mon–Burmese script

The Mon–Burmese script (မွန်မြန်မာအက္ခရာ; အက္ခရ်မန်ဗၟာ,, อักษรมอญพม่า; also called the Mon script, Old Mon script and Burmese script) is an abugida that derives from the Pallava Grantha script of southern India and later of Southeast Asia.

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Mudra

A mudra (मुद्रा,, "seal", "mark", or "gesture") is a symbolic or ritual gesture or pose in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.

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Nagarakretagama

The Nagarakretagama or Nagarakṛtāgama, also known as Desawarnana or Deśavarṇana, is an Old Javanese eulogy to Hayam Wuruk, a Javanese king of the Majapahit Empire.

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Nandinagari

Nandināgarī is a Brahmic script derived from the Nāgarī script which appeared in the 7th century AD.

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Nepal

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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Odia language

Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ, ISO:,; formerly rendered as Oriya) is an Indo-Aryan classical language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha.

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Odia script

The Odia script (translit-std, also translit-std) is a Brahmic script used to write primarily Odia language and others including Sanskrit and other regional languages.

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Odisha

Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.

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Ola leaf

Ola leaf is a palm leaf used for writing in traditional palm-leaf manuscripts and in fortunetelling (horoscopes) in Southern India and Sri Lanka. Palm-leaf manuscript and Ola leaf are palm trees in culture.

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Old Javanese

Old Javanese or Kawi is the oldest attested phase of the Javanese language.

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Open access

Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers.

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Orihon

Orihon (Japanese: 折本, Hepburn: Orihon) is a style of Japanese codex—a historic precursor to modern books—with an accordion-folded structure, which is known also as concertina binding.

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Pagan Kingdom

The Kingdom of Pagan (ပုဂံခေတ်,,; also known as the Pagan dynasty and the Pagan Empire; also the Bagan dynasty or Bagan Empire) was the first Burmese kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern-day Myanmar.

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Pali Text Society

The Pāli Text Society is a text publication society founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pāli texts." Pāli is the language in which the texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism are preserved.

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Palm sugar

Palm sugar is a sweetener derived from any variety of palm tree.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pitakataik

Pitakataik (ပိဋကတ်တိုက်; also spelt bidagat taik and pitaka taik) is a library of Buddhist scriptures, including the Tipiṭaka, found in Buddhist societies in modern-day Myanmar (Burma).

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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Printing press

A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sendai University

is a private university in Shibata, Miyagi, Japan, established in 1967.

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Shaiva Siddhanta

Shaiva Siddhanta is a form of Shaivism popular in South India and Sri Lanka which propounds a devotional philosophy with the ultimate goal of experiencing union with Shiva.

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Shaivism

Shaivism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva as the Supreme Being.

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Smaradahana

Smaradahana, also known as Smaradhana, Asmaradhana, Asmaradahana, Asmaradana, Asmarandhana, or Asmarandana is an old Javanese poem (kakawin) written by Mpu Dharmaja as the eulogy for King Kameçvara of Kediri in early-12th century East Java.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Spitzer Manuscript

The Spitzer Manuscript is the oldest surviving philosophical manuscript in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, and possibly the oldest Sanskrit manuscript of any type related to Buddhism.

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Stylus

A stylus (styli or styluses) is a writing utensil or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping, for example, in pottery.

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Tamil Heritage Foundation

Tamil Heritage Foundation (THF) is a non-profit organization that collaborates with the British Library to collect, preserve and digitize documents of Tamil cultural heritage.

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Tamil script

The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and elsewhere to write the Tamil language.

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Telugu script

Telugu script (Telugu lipi), an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write the Telugu language, a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as well as several other neighbouring states.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.

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Thaton

Thaton (သဓီု) is a town in Mon State, in southern Myanmar on the Tenasserim plains.

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Tibet

Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.

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Tolkāppiyam

Tolkāppiyam, also romanised as Tholkaappiyam (தொல்காப்பியம், lit. "ancient poem"), is the most ancient extant Tamil grammar text and the oldest extant long work of Tamil literature.

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U Pho Thi Library

U Pho Thi Library, officially known as the, is a Buddhist library or pitakataik in Thaton, Mon State, Myanmar.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Universities' Central Library

The Universities' Central Library (abbreviated UCL) is a academic library located on the University of Yangon campus in Yangon, Myanmar.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Wat Ounalom

Wat Ounalom (វត្តឧណ្ណាលោម, UNGEGN:, ALA-LC:,; also Wat Unnalom and several other spellings) is a wat located on Sisowath Quay in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, near the Royal Palace of Cambodia.

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Writing material

A writing material is a surface that can be written on with suitable instruments, or used for symbolic or representational drawings.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm-leaf_manuscript

Also known as Lontar manuscript, Lontar manuscripts, Palm leaf manuscript, Palm leaf manuscripts, Palm leaf paper, Palm-leaf manuscripts, Palm-leaf paper, Pothi, Talapatra Pothi, Wrtiting meterials in india.

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Hindu literature

Manuscripts by type

Palm trees in culture

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