![]() Some of the paper manuscripts may go back centuries to the time of the introduction of papers into India by the Muslims. ![]() They are written on various materials - paper, palm-left, birch-bark and the bark of other trees. 1 In the Calcutta collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, some of the ancient manuscript go as far back as the ninth century A.D. The existence of these was absolutely unknown to the educated people of the present generation. Sen wrote : 'By the year 1847 I was in possession of quite an unexpected treasure of old manuscripts collected from various parts of Bengal, mostly from East-Bengal. Sen also acquired an ancient manuscript of the poem Mrgalubdha by the poet Rati Deva of Chakrasala in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The search for ancient Bengali manuscripts started in 1878 when Sir Grierson published the Ballad of King Manikchandra in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Dev-Nagari characters with notes and an English translation by Dr.
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