Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_204
"The Divyāvadāna is a large compendium of Indian Buddhist narratives written in Sanskrit from the early centuries of the Common Era. The Nagarāvalambikā avadāna (The Stor...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_176
A Buddhist text describes several mantras related to Mahāpratyaṅgirā, a deity in the Tantric Buddhist pantheon. At the beginning of the manuscript, the iconography of the...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_172
An Avadana text praises the giving of alms-bowls to Buddhist mendicants. The story tells of Sarvānanda, the king of the great city of Dīpavatī, who once visited the renow...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_168
This is a Dharmaśāstra text—the second book of the Dharmatattva by Kamalākara Bhaṭṭa, a member of the well-known Bhaṭṭa family of Benares. He was the son of Umā and Rāmak...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_142
A Mahāyāna Buddhist text descrided many cakras: khacakra (f.3b); kāyacakra (f.5b); nāḍīcakra (f.7a); urdha and madhya cakra (f.8b); catuścakra (f.10a); it also discussed...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_127
This manuscript contains a Newari commentary on the Cāṇakyasārasaṅgraha, a text that contains nīti verses ascribed to Cāṇakya. Many texts have been found under the same c...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_99
A Buddhist Tantra text contains five paṭalas (chapters) that deal with Buddhist cosmology, the Kālacakra calendar, the birth and death of universes, the birth of humans,...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_95
A 17-act (sarga) Mahākāvya on the story of Kārtavīrya Arjuna, the son of Haihaya king Kṛtavīrya, a Puranic king, was famous for his valour and also because of his physica...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_79
An Avadāna text contains five stories related to the Aśoka-Upagupta chronicles (Mitra, 1882, pp. 292-303). Originally, the text had 26 stories, but this manuscript includ...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_78
The Mahāyāna-sūtra consists of five chapters, called parivarttas, which describe the continent of Padmadhātu, its king Araṇemi, his priest and 500 sons, as well as its Ta...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_60
This text is the 6th chapter of the Divyāvadāna, which tells the story of a self-obsessed brāhmaṇa named Indra and how he was enlightened by Gautama Buddha. The story als...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_38
This is a vrata text praising the Buddhist goddess Vasundhārā (or Vasudhārā). She is the goddess of both wealth and prosperity, and this text describes the positive impac...