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Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A work on poetic composition that mentions the four languages, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsha and mixed.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A Sanskrit grammar text that covers rules of sandhi and strī-pratyaya.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A Sanskrit kāvya in 32 cantos composed by Jayadratha(rājānaka), minister of Rājarāja of Kashmir (1203–1226). The text describes the legends of Śiva and his avataras and l...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A prescriptive text on iconography and the building of shrines from the first millennium ce.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A Vedāntic encyclopedia composed by Narahari alias Nityamukta in the 18th century.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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This contains the Bālakāṇḍa and Ayodhyākāṇḍa, the first two of the seven cantos of Vālmīki’s epic.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A detailed analytic commentary on Sivasütra by Rājānaka Rāma, pupil of Utpaladeva, exponent of the Trika Saivism of Kashmir.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A text on Advaita Vedānta. Though it is attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, it includes views at variance with his, such as the denial of the jīvanmukta being subject to prārabdh...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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This contains Durgasiṃha’s commentary on Yāska’s Nirukta, a text on the derivations of words, and is in continuation of MS ark:/12148/btv1b10084028x.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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This contains Durgasiṃha’s commentary on Yāska’s Nirukta, a text on the derivations of words, and is continued at MS ark:/12148/btv1b10084029c.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The first of 18 parvas, it describes how Vedavyāsa’s Sanskrit epic came to be recited by Ugrasrava Sauti to the assembled rishis at the Naimisha forest after its first re...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The first text of this composite manuscript is also known as Bhāsvatīkaraṇa or Pañca siddhānta, and was authored in 1099 by Śatānanda (Muktādhara), son of Śaṅkara and Sar...