[Wellcome MS Sinhalese 349].

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19th century
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[Wellcome MS Sinhalese 349]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Yakada unukirïma (kavi saha väsagam). In verse and prose, technical instructions on iron smelting in Sri Lanka during the 18th century. This local industry is dead now. It is difficult to understand the text, mainly devoted to measurements of the furnace, various situations to avoid, etc. There is no mention of the bellows.

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19th century.

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3.5 x 32 cm

References note

For full description see 'Catalogue of the Sinhalese manuscripts in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine' / K.D. Somadasa. London : Wellcome Trust, 1996

Notes

Palm-leaf; ff. I4 (ka-kau); 3.5 x 31.8 cm; four or five lines, 28.5 cm long to a side; quite skilled, round (bold), uniform hand; f. 11 damaged; rare technical text; written early 19th century; incomplete.

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