Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_500
This popular Nepali Hindu textual tradition deals with Hindu rituals (vratas) and narrates stories of Pārvatī and Śiva. According to scholars, it is believed that the ori...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_499
The Svayambhū-purāṇa exists in several versions of varying lengths. The present text, composed in four chapters, represents the longer version known as the Vṛhat (great)...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_498
The Svayambhū-purāṇa exists in several versions of varying lengths. The present text, composed in four chapters, represents the longer version known as the Vṛhat (great)...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_497
The Svayambhū-purāṇa exists in several versions of varying lengths. The present text, composed in ten chapters, represents the longer version known as the Vṛhat (great) v...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_495
Svayambhū-purāṇa exists in several versions of varying lengths. The present work is the shortest and likely the earliest version of the text, believed to have been compos...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_492
The Svayambhū-purāṇa exists in several versions of varying lengths. The present text, composed in eight chapters, represents the longer version known as the Vṛhat (great)...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_491
The Svayambhū-purāṇa exists in several versions of varying lengths. The present text, composed in eight chapters, represents the longer version known as the Vṛhat (great)...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_490
This is a recension of the Svayambhū-purāṇa. The manuscript contains only chapter eight, but it is incomplete and lacks a colophon. The eighth chapter describes the proph...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_489
An anonymous Jyotiṣa text describes dreams and their good and bad effects. It is titled Svapnādhyāya, which means "a chapter on dreams." From the title, it seems that thi...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_488
A Jyotiṣa text with an anonymous commentary composed in Newari describes different types of svapna (dreams), their interpretations, and effects. It was authored by Jagadd...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_484
This is a sūtra text titled Sūtrakasiloka, although Matsunami speculated that the title could be Sūtraka-śloka. The text is composed in the śloka style, very similar to t...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_482
This text describes Śākyamuni telling his disciples about the power of the mantra Suvarṇa-prabhāsa, which even householders and women of family background who seek knowle...