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Mantra potak
MS Sinhalese 130 Language : Sinhalese Scripts : Sinhalese
This work covers subjects like astrological predictions, charms, medicines etc. It describes means of protection from wild animals.
Yantra (citra) potak
MS Sinhalese 213 Language : Sinhalese Scripts : Sinhalese
An illustrated manuscript with yantras and maṇḍalas with a short mantra.
Iti-bisō jātakaya (kavi)
MS Sinhalese 277 Language : Sinhalese Scripts : Sinhalese
A palm-leaf manuscript of possibly the late 18th century.
Buddha Prinirvāṇaya; Buddhavaṃśa dēsanāva; Anāgatavaṃśa dēsanāva
MS Sinhalese 326 Language : Sinhalese Scripts : Sinhalese
An astrology text on birth chart predictions.
Yakḍa uṇukirīma (kavi saha vāsagam)
MS Sinhalese 349 Language : Sinhalese Scripts : Sinhalese
Incomplete palm-leaf manuscript 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.
Peraḷi haṭana
MS Sinhalese 374 Language : Sinhalese Scripts : Sinhalese
A ballad on the Ähälēpola minister whose intrigues with the British government led to the execution of his family by the last king of Kandy…..’ (Hugh Nevill Collection of Sinhalese MSS in the British Library Vol. 4, p.293)
Ginikeḷi sādana krama
MS Sinhalese 388 Language : Sinhalese Scripts : Sinhalese
Palm-leaf manuscript of 19th century on methods of making fireworks. The quantities in the formulae are given in astrological numerals, and at times the names of chemicals used are abbreviated.
Pavana: Rājasiṃha (II) varṇanā (kavi)
MS Sinhalese 397 Language : Sinhalese Scripts : Sinhalese
The text narrates the valour of Rājasiṃha II in the battle against the Portuguese.
Mi la ras pa’I rnam thar
MS Tibetan 3 Language : Tibetan Scripts : Tibetan
Xylograph It is a biography of Milarepa by Ras-chuṅ rDo-rje Grags-pa (1083–1161).
Dam chos yid bźin gyi nor bu thar pa’i rin po che’i rgyan
MS Tibetan 54 Language : Tibetan Scripts : Tibetan
Xylograph The text on liberation, ‘The jewel ornament of liberation or the wish fulfilling gem of the noble doctrine’ by sGam-po-pa.
Kavadi ri phala sukana; Untitled; Devi sakuna; Ratna-kosa-mālā; Unitentified; Untitled; Untitled; Muharāṃ rī parīṣyā; Sālihotra; Unidentified; Unidentified; Sata-saṃvacharī;Various works
MS Hindi 173 Language : Hindi Scripts : Devnāgarī
Composite manuscript from the 17th-century, including a manuscript on the treatment of horses composed in Mewar during the rule of Maharana Jagatsingh, and other anonymous fragments, including vidhi texts.
MS Hindi 442 Language : Hindi Scripts :
Gutakā soft buff (and green) papers, no cover incomplete, lacks outer folios. This is the composite manuscript.