Description: New and Sealed - THE CITRASASTRA PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPT FROM ODISHA (INDIA) - A Spurious Manual for Painters from Odisha. Formerly in the collection of Alice Boner (Alice Boner dialogues no. 1) Condition: NEW & SEALED Author: Eberhard Fischer and Dinanath Pathy ISBN:9783907077610 Binding:Paper Back Publishing Year:2020 Publisher:Fundation for Museum Rietberg Zurich and Alice Boner Institute Varanasi Number of Pages:87 In the 1960s, the Puri-based and internationally known Pandit Sadasiva Rath Sarma presented Alice Boner with an illustrated palm-leaf manuscript entitled “Citrasastra” (painting treatise). It consists of nineteen folios, inscribed on both sides with Sanskrit slokas (verses) and Odia captions to a large number of incised drawings and diagrams. The pothi (manuscript) also contains a fourline colophon that speaks of a Rupakara (wood-sculptor’s caste) master from Puri as the author and also gives a date that leaves much room for interpretation. The light-brown folios have the look of antiques, of having been prepared decades, if not centuries, ago. No similar text exists in the Odia language and only a few comparable works are known, all famous and often quoted among art-historians. In 1999, my friend Dinanath Pathy showed me the manuscript; I photographed the folios and we decided to publish it. In the process of editing the fascinating opus, which provides us with most interesting terms in Sanskrit as well as in the specific Odia workshop lingo of “traditional” crafts-persons of Puri, we were again and again puzzled by obscure details. But only after we had properly transliterated and translated all the inscriptions, when we translated and discussed between us the colophon, we questioned more and more the authenticity of the manuscript. Slowly, the pure editing work changed to become a forensic affair. BE SURE TO CHECK OUT MY OTHER DISCOUNTED TEXTBOOKS. HAPPY BIDDING!
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Subject Area: Language Study, Middle Eastern Languages
Publication Name: THE CITRASASTRA PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPT
Publisher: Varanasi
Subject: History, Indian Studies
Series: Alice Boner Dialogues
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Manual
Format: Paperback
Language: English, Hindi, Indian
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Author: Eberhard Fischer
Features: Manuscript
Level: Advanced
Country/Region of Manufacture: India
