śrī kṣetra pyu golden pāli text
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Śrī Kṣetra Pyu Golden Pāli Text
One of the earliest known surviving Pāli texts. It consist of 20 leaves of gold, bound as a palm-leaf manuscript and containing eight excerpts of canonical Buddhist texts. Dated around the mid- or late 5th century, it was compiled by several authors in what is now Burma.
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A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 2003, 2004 (which is available in electronic version from answer.com)
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