Antique Burmese Buddhist Kammavaca Pali Manuscript

AGE: – 19th Century
LENGTH: – 59cm
WIDTH:– 14.5cm
HEIGHT: – 5cm
WEIGHT:– 2.6 kg.

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Antique Burmese Buddhist Kammavaca Pali Manuscript comprises two outer wooden covers and sixteen internal pages or leaves which make this a complete Kammavaca Pali manuscript. A Kammavaca is a type of Burmese Buddhist manuscript containing passages from the Pali canon related to the ordination and rituals of monastic life.

The word Kammavaca means “a matter of duty” and refers to the rules of conduct for the Buddhist clergy. Kammavaca manuscripts are usually commissioned by lay people as meritorious gifts for monasteries, especially when a son enters the order as a novice or a monk. They are written in an ornate script called “tamarind-seed” or “square” script, which is different from the round script used for other texts.
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