Palm Leaf Manuscripts

[financial-engineer]

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Hi,

In the coming months, I am planning on digitizing my collection of palm leaf manuscripts. I need help deciphering them as:

1) I do not speak, read, or write Sanskrit
2) I can not read or write Tamil, but I speak it pretty well

I'll upload digitized versions here in DjVu format as it is small and scales extremely well. I am attaching a sample of one of the smaller books I have. It is by no means complete (I only have 6 leaves of a bigger book). Any help in preserving our precious past will be welcome...

Thanks,

Ram

 

[SwamiTaBra]

Hi,

In the coming months, I am planning on digitizing my collection of palm leaf manuscripts. I need help deciphering them as:

1) I do not speak, read, or write Sanskrit
2) I can not read or write Tamil, but I speak it pretty well

I'll upload digitized versions here in DjVu format as it is small and scales extremely well. I am attaching a sample of one of the smaller books I have. It is by no means complete (I only have 6 leaves of a bigger book). Any help in preserving our precious past will be welcome...

Thanks,

Ram

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You can approach
i) the State achaelogical dept. near the museum at Egmore, Chennai
ii) Samskrit College, Mylapore

May be if you could get in Dr. Nagaswami, the renowned epigraphist who served in Archaelogical Dept. there is nothing like that.

Regards,
Swami

 

[N.R.Ranganathan]

Sir,
The language is Tamil. May be we can infer the author if some more are uploaded or you can send it to me by email at [email protected]

The Saraswati Mahal library has some good collections, and in case it is in grantha
they can guide us better. Thanks.

 

[a.lakshmi]

hello people,

good someone has reminded me of digitization, my father too has bundles of the ancient palm leaves(in kannada) and we plan to digitize them.

My father is a journalist and a poet by profession,people who know of the palm leaves, approach him to get their readings, none of us in the family intended to inherit them.

so digitization would make them live forever, help in this regard would be appreciated.

Lakshmi

 

[N.R.Ranganathan]

Sir:
I have requested you to upload some more, but there is no response from you.
I am interested to see what they are . Thanks

 

[financial-engineer]

Sir:
I have requested you to upload some more, but there is no response from you.
I am interested to see what they are . Thanks

Sorry guys, been quite busy this past month. I'll go to the University Friday or Saturday and start scanning the leaves. As I said earlier, I have three complete books and two partial books. This will definitely take some time. I'll start with the smaller book of 6 leaves (double-sided). Afterwards, I'll scan the second partial book of 12 leaves and then I'll scan the 3 complete books (which will take considerable time to clean and scan)...

Cheers,

Ram

 

[financial-engineer]

Hi Guys,

Sorry it took so long. I scanned the leaves of the first partial book. Unfortunately, when I got it, the original owner scrambled the pages and hence I don't know the order of the leaves. Neither do I know which side is top or bottom. The forum doesn't allow large attachments and hence I uploaded it here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/443614641/Tamil_Manuscript_Images.zip

Let me know if you have any questions...

Thanks,

Ram

 

[N.R.Ranganathan]

Dear financial-engineer sir,

Many thanks. I have gone thru' the MS in palm leaf. This is about siddha medicine.
It will be of help to an Ayurvedic/siddha medical practitioner.

 

[financial-engineer]

Dear financial-engineer sir,

Many thanks. I have gone thru' the MS in palm leaf. This is about siddha medicine.
It will be of help to an Ayurvedic/siddha medical practitioner.

Is it possible for you to re-write it in PDF using a tamil font? With it digitized, I can do some more research. In the mean time, I'll start scanning the other books...

Thanks,

Ram

 

[siganeswarie]

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[siganeswarie]

betel palm
noun A tropical Asian feather-leaved palm (Areca catechu) cultivated for its seeds. Also called catechu.

cabbage palm
noun Any of several palms, such as the assai, with edible terminal bud

 

[siganeswarie]

date palm noun A palm tree (Phoenix dactylifera) of western Asia and northern Africa and cultivated also in California, having featherlike leaves and bearing clusters of dates.

fan palm any palm tree with broad, fan-shaped leaves

 

[saarangam]

Palm leaf manuscript refers to documents written on palm leaf which was a practice in vouge
before the entry of paper.I can't understand the relevance of the postings on this thread as it
has nothing to say about 'manuscript'.

 

[balavas]

Dear Sir / Madam
I hava a flatbed scanner at home and I can help you to take scanned copies of the palm leaves into pdf format suitable for uploading but the size of the palm leaves should be within A4 size and you should have the owner's permission for digitalisation and uploading to avoid legal problems. Further as I am a senior citizen with health problems making outdoor mobility very restricted, I am afraid that the palm leaves may have to be delivered at my home ( I live at T.Nagar, Chennai) and taken back after scanning.
balavas