Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_130
An Avadāna text, being the 8th chapter of the Aśokāvadānamālā (Matsunami, 1965, p. 55) , is a part of the Aśoka-Upagupta chronicles, in which Upagupta narrates and explai...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_124
This manuscript contains the third chapter of Ratnamālāvadāna text, a collection of stories about the previous Buddhas. It is written in a dialogue format between Sage Up...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_110
This manuscript contains the first chapter of Avadānaratnamālā text, a collection of stories about the previous Buddhas. It is written in a dialogue format between Sage U...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_82
A Jātaka story taken from the Vratāvadānamālā, in which Upagupta tells the story of Prince Kavikumāra to King Aśoka. According to Upagupta’s narration, this story was fir...
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_77
An Avadāna text containing nine chapters describes the importance of almsgiving. The text is associated with the previous Buddha, Dīpaṅkara. The story begins in a large a...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_76
An Avadāna text containing nine chapters describes the importance of almsgiving. The text is associated with the previous Buddha, Dīpaṅkara. The story begins in a large a...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_75
The Avadāna text comprises 18 chapters. While Matsunami refers to this text as Kapīśāvadāna, the colophon of the manuscript identifies it as Kavitāvadāna. Kapīśāvadāna co...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_73
A Buddhist text narrates the story of previous Buddha Dīpaṅkara Buddha. It also discusses Buddhist rituals to praise the Buddhas. This seems to be a rare text.
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_72
A commentary on the Kaṭhināvadāna, a text that discusses the merits of charity, abstinence, and other virtues during the one-month period of Kaṭhina (Buddhist abstention)...
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_42
This text is a part of the Vīrakuśāvadāna and describes the story of King Subandhu, who has no children, and how he became the father of a son born from a sugarcane plant...