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A reproduction of the palm-leaf manuscript in Siddham script, originally held at Hōryū-ji Temple, Japan; now located in the Tokyo National Museum at the Gallery of Hōryū—ji Treasure. The original copy may be the earliest extant Sanskrit manuscript of the Heart Sutra dated to the 7th–8th century CE.
The earliest instance is a manuscript entitled Lankavatara Sutra dated Nepal Era 28 (908 AD). Another early specimen is a palm-leaf manuscript of a Buddhist text the Prajnaparamita, dated Nepal Era 40 (920 AD). [11] One of the oldest manuscript of Ramayana, preserved till date, was written in Nepal Script in 1041. [12]
A reproduction of the palm-leaf manuscript in Siddham script, originally held at Hōryū-ji Temple, Japan; now located in the Tokyo National Museum at the Gallery of Hōryū-ji Treasure. The original copy may be the earliest extant Sanskrit manuscript dated to the 7th–8th century CE. [1]
Notable examples of such medieval scripts, developed by the 7th or 8th century, include Nagari, Siddham and Sharada. The Siddhaṃ script was especially important in Buddhism, as many sutras were written in it. The art of Siddham calligraphy survives today in Japan.
Manuscripts transl: Max Muller and Bunyiu Nanjio [6] [note 5] ... Indian Siddham script to Chinese script transliteration code in Nilaṇṭhanāmahṛdaya dhāra ...
Siddham. Nagari. Devanagari. Gujarati; ... The Devanāgarī script is closely related to the Nandināgarī script commonly found in numerous ancient manuscripts of ...
The image of the palm leaf manuscript on this page is the Heart Sūtra - or at least the first page and the first line of the last page. The rest of the text is the Uṣniṣavijaya Dhāraṇī . While the last line contains a complete siddhaṃ syllabary beginning with the word 'siddhaṃ'.
A list of eighty-four siddhas is found in a manuscript (manuscript no 48/34 of the Asiatic Society of Bengal) dated Lakshmana Samvat 388 (1506) of a medieval Maithili work, the Varna Ratnakara (devnagari: वर्ण-रत्नाकर) written by Jyotirishwar Thakur, the court poet of King Harisimhadeva of Mithila (reigned 1300–1321). An ...