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READ for Solving Manuscript Riddles: A Preliminary Study of the Manuscripts of the 3rd ṣaṭka of the Jayadrathayāmala

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This is a part of an in-depth study of a set of the manuscripts related to the Jayadrathayāmala. Taking JY.3.9 as a test-chapter, a comparative paleography analysis of the 11 manuscripts was made within READ software framework. The workflow within READ minimized the effort to make a few important discoveries (manuscripts containing more than one script, identification of the manuscripts potentially written by the same person) as well as to create an overview of the shift from Nāgarī to Newārī and, finally, to Devanāgarī scripts within the history of manuscript transmission of a single chapter. Exploratory statistical analysis in R of the syllable frequency in each manuscript, based on the paleography analysis export from READ, helped to establish that there are potentially two lines of manuscript transmission of the JY.3.9.

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Notes

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    Pers. comm. 05.04.2021.

  2. 2.

    READsoftware 2021: https://github.com/readsoftware/read/wiki.

  3. 3.

    Based on Gupta [n.d.]. See also Fig. 5 here.

  4. 4.

    For clustering function dfm_weight, library quanteda in R. Visualisation - pheatmap. We thank Dmitry Serbaev, Omsk, Russia, for his expert advise concerning R.

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    For the historical changes in Sanskrit orthography in a close comparison to Middle-Indic languages see Edgerton 1946:199, 202–203.

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    Olga Serbaeva

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Serbaeva, O., White, S. (2021). READ for Solving Manuscript Riddles: A Preliminary Study of the Manuscripts of the 3rd ṣaṭka of the Jayadrathayāmala. In: Barney Smith, E.H., Pal, U. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Workshops. ICDAR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12917. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86159-9_24

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