I can confirm that the link to Nepal Mandala on archive.org works. https://archive.org/details/nepalmandalacult0001mary/page/392/mode/2up?view=theater Just now I logged in to it and I could borrow and view the entire book. Strangely yesterday when I tried I couldn't, even when it didn't indicate someone else was borrowing it. Harry Spier
On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 7:23 PM Harry Spier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Patrick Olivelle wrote: >> The Archive does not permit the view of pages. >> > > I just tried the link > https://archive.org/details/nepalmandalacult0001mary/page/392/mode/2up?view=theater > and got the message > Another patron is using this book. Please check back later.Another patron > is using this book. Please check back later. > Presumably that's the problem. > Harry Spier > >> On Dec 8, 2024, at 5:27 PM, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> I remember finding Mary Slusser's short appendix II in Nepal Mandala >> helpful. It's just a quick overview, but she writes well, which helps. >> >> - >> >> https://archive.org/details/nepalmandalacult0001mary/page/392/mode/2up?view=theater >> >> Jerry Losty told me once that "kuṭila/kuṭilā" was not a valid indigenous >> name for a script, but was a neologism created by a nineteenth century >> palaeographer, I can't remember who. >> >> Best, >> Dominik >> >> -- >> Prof. Dominik Wujastyk >> University of Alberta >> >> "The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth, >> the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge >> through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities >> and service." >> -- Collective Agreement >> <https://www.ualberta.ca/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/my-employment/agreements/2020-2024-collective-agreement---working-version.pdf> >> 3.01 >> >> >> >> On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 at 15:24, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thank you Charles, >>> You wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> There are a good number of Nepalese scripts that have been used >>>> throughout the centuries, *so Nepālākṣarā can mean any one of them *like >>>> Rañjana, Bhujimol, etc. The most commonly used one in the past few >>>> centuries is Pracalit, which is indeed sometimes called Newari Script, but >>>> I suppose all the others might also be called as such by some. Yes, like >>>> all Brāhmī derived scripts, Nepalese scripts are generally written without >>>> the breaks between words that one finds in Roman script, for example. >>>> >>> Based on your comment *"**so Nepālākṣarā can mean any one of them *" >>> I'm surprised that the Cambridge university catalogue entries for some >>> NGMCP manuscripts lists the script only as .Nepālākṣarā, >>> See links below. Two manuscripts from 19th century and one from 14-15th >>> century. >>> See: >>> https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01386/1 >>> https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01164-00002/1 >>> https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-02248/1 >>> Thanks, >>> Harry Spier >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> >> >>
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