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[RAS Sinhalese 14] [Amarapuravaṃsa]


language : Sinhalese

date : C19th?

Beg.: jayatu anantandarodayagirisantibhe … jayatu … gathā-sakalalokapahaṃ … Ends: indavaṃsagāthā … dhammarājādhirājavijitamaramakkhaṃ vāyapariyaṃ dipanā sāsanavaṃsakathā–siddhir astu … 12 olas (ka-kl); 440 x 45 mm; 2 cord holes, 6 lines, 72 char., Sinh. small script, 400 mm; numb. Sinh. letters; a single wooden cover. The text is not known in the Hugh Nevill Collection (British Library, K.D. Somadasa’s catalogue), nor listed in Godakumbra’s Sinhalese literature. Cf. Encycl. Budh. pp. 406-7. No date. Presented by Sir A. Johnston Dec. 1828. 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.