A Modular Framework for the Analysis of the Dates Found in Manuscripts Written in the Tamil and Tamilian Grantha Scripts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: South Asia
5. North India
6. The Earliest Colophons in the Buddhist Northwest 13
7. Colophons in Fourteenth-Century Nepalese Manuscripts: Materials for the Study of the Nepalese Renaissance (I) 43
8. On the Syntax of Colophons in Jain Palm-Leaf and Paper Manuscripts from Western India 119
9. South India
10. Scribe, Owner, or Both? Some Ambiguities in the Interpretations of Personal Names in Colophons from Tamil Nadu 149
11. A Modular Framework for the Analysis of the Dates Found in Manuscripts Written in the Tamil and Tamilian Grantha Scripts 171
12. Part II: Southeast Asia
13. Mainland
14. Khom/Mūl Script Manuscripts from Central Thailand and Cambodia: Colophons with a Variable Geometry? 209
15. The Grammar and Function of Colophons in Lao Manuscripts: The Case of the Vat Maha That Collection, Luang Prabang 229
16. The Structure, Functions, and Tradition of Siamese Royal Scribal Colophons 261
17. Maritime
18. Colophons in Palm-Leaf Manuscripts from Bali and Lombok (Indonesia) 281
19. Part III: Central Asia
20. The Syntax of Tibetan Colophons: An Overview 323
21. Colophons in Tocharian Manuscripts 347
22. Central Asian and Iranian Influence in Old Uyghur Buddhist Manuscripts: Book Forms and Donor Colophons 373
23. Indexes 399