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GB 891 DJG-DJG/13-DJG/13/1
Title
Sāsanavaṃsa-dīpaya
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- 1830 - 1860 (Creation)
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This is a printed version of the Sāsanavaṃsa-dīpaya text written in Sinhalese. The book was printed in 1903, in Sri Lanka. It has 160 uncut pages and a red paper cover. The Sāsanavaṃsa-dīpaya is a history of the Buddhist order in Burma, composed by the Burmese monk Paññāsāmi in 1861. It was originally written in Pāli prose, and is based on earlier documents in Pāli and Burmese. The cover is slightly fragile. Approx. 21.5cmX14.5cm.
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- Sinhala