Question

6.
In India, early manuscripts were written on
a. beaten copper, parchment and dried palm
leaf
b. beaten copper, bark of trees, and dried palm
leaf
C. paper, parchment and dried palm leaf
d. bark of trees, beaten copper and paper​

Answer 1

beaten copper, bark of tree and dried palm leaf

Answer 2

In India, 'early manuscripts' were written on 'beaten copper', 'parchment' and 'dried palm leaf .'

Answer: Option a

Explanation:

Early manuscripts were written on beaten copper, and parchment paper. They were also written palm leaves, a plant that is neither native Nepal nor cultivated in the mountainous terrain but was imported from the riverine plains and coastal regions of India.

In Nepal and eastern India, no illuminated manuscript can be securely dated before the eleventh century. Although the earliest dated illuminated manuscript, copied in 1015, is Nepali, very likely the tradition originated in the Buddhist monasteries of Bengal and Bihar in Eastern India.