[RAS Sinhalese 07] Bālāvatāra

language : Sinhalese

date : C19th?

Pāli-Sinhalese sanne 105 olas (ka-chl); 565 x 55 mm; 2 cord holes, 8 lines, 120 char., Sinh. small script, 420 mm; numb. Sinh. letters & European figures in pencil; 2 wooden covers, slightly damaged on the edge, red lacquered on recto only with fine palapeti and katuru-mala motifs painted in black and yellow, in the middle two hamsa facing each other; sandal wood potsakiya. No date. See Jacqueline Filliozat, ‘Survey of the Pāli Manuscript Collection in the Royal Asiatic Society’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1999, Vol. 9, Pt. 1, pp. 35-76.