Top cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Top cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina)

Covers: Gum tempera, colors, and paper on wood; pages: gum tempera and ink on palm leaves
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Wooden covers of <em>pothi </em>manuscripts are called <em>patli.</em>

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