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Ola leaf is a palm leaf used for writing in traditional palm-leaf manuscripts and in fortunetelling in Southern India [1] and Sri Lanka. The leaves are from the talipot tree, a type of palm, and fortunes are written on them and read by fortune tellers. [ 2 ]
A very good example of the usage of palm leaf manuscripts to store history is a Tamil grammar book named Tolkāppiyam, written around the 3rd century BCE. [18] A global digitalization project led by the Tamil Heritage Foundation collects, preserves, digitizes, and makes ancient palm-leaf manuscript documents available to users via the internet.
Once cut off from the tree, the leaves are ordered, cleaned, heated, straightened, and tied together in what is known as an olla book or palm-leaf manuscript. [2] The inscription process is also done according to traditional techniques. Few are original compositions and most are exact copies and in form, shape and size of older manuscripts.
The palm leaf manuscript shows all signs of age-related decay. Further, the order of the pages are a bit jumbled as the text does not flow from one page to another, but is more meaningfully connected to a distant page inside the book. The manuscript has not been published yet (as of 2018).
The ORI houses over 45,000 Palm leaf manuscript bundles and the 75,000 works on those leaves. The manuscripts are palm leaves cut to a standard size of 150 by 35 mm (5.9 by 1.4 in). Brittle palm leaves are sometimes softened by scrubbing a paste made of ragi and then used by the ancients for writing, similar to the use of papyrus in ancient Egypt.
Saraswathi Mahal Library, also called Thanjavur Maharaja Serfoji's Saraswathi Mahal Library is a library located in Thanjavur (Tanjore), Tamil Nadu, India.It is one of the oldest subsisting libraries in Asia [1] established during 16th century by the Nayak kings of Thanjavur and has on display a rare collection of Palm leaf manuscripts and paper written in Tamil and Sanskrit and a few other ...
It is one of the largest palms with individual specimens having reached heights of up to 25 m (82 ft) with stems up to 1.3 m (4.3 ft) in diameter. [5] It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with large, palmate leaves up to 5 m (16 ft) in diameter, with a petiole up to 4 m (13 ft), and up to 130 leaflets.
In the film Chandran Rutnam is set to direct, Prince of Malacca, the olai-chuvadi (palm-leaf) reading which Raj Rajaratnam sought to forecast his future is influenced. [ 9 ] After Johny reads an article in the Newsweek magazine by a professor at the University of New York, he becomes interested in olai-chuvadi reading or Nadi astrology.