where were the manuscript written
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Palm leaf or the bark of the birch tree was used in the ancient times to write manuscripts. Manuscripts were produced on vellum and another parchment, on papyrus, and on paper.
In India, the palm leaf manuscript, with a distinctive long rectangular shape, was used from ancient times until the 19th century.
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Palm leaves and the bark of a birch tree are the proper answer.
Explanation:
- Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts produced from dried palm leaves.
- Palm leaves have been used as writing substances withinside the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia reportedly in relationship lower back to the fifth century BCE.
- Their use commenced in South Asia and unfold to different regions, as texts on dried and smoke-dealt with palm leaves of the Palmyra palm or the talipot palm.
- Their use endured until the nineteenth century when printing presses changed hand-written manuscripts.
- One of the oldest surviving palm leaf manuscripts of a whole treatise is a Sanskrit Shaivism textual content from the ninth century, found in Nepal, now preserved in the Cambridge University Library.
- The Spitzer Manuscript is a group of palm leaf fragments observed in Kizil Caves, China.
They are dated to approximately the 2d century CE and are the oldest regarded philosophical manuscript in Sanskrit.
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