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Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A text on human wellbeing and curative and preventive health care.
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...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A commentary on Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya (itself a commentary on Kātyāyana’s commentary on Pāṇini). The author is Lakṣmaṇa, son of Murāri Pāṭhaka. The manuscript contains f...
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The fifth of 18 parvas, it describes the preparation for war, and includes didactic sections like Viduranīti and Dūtapranidhi.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The sixth of 18 parvas, this describes Bhīṣma’s leadership of the Kaurava army. It includes treatises like Jambūdvīpanirṇaya, Bhuvanakośa and Bhagavadgītā.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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This contains the fourth part (pāda) of the fourth adhyāya (chapter) of a work also known as the Brahma Sūtra, Vedānta Sūtra, and Bhikṣu-sūtra. This is one of three key V...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The ‘Five Treatises’ is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story about the education of princ...
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Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Also known as the Br̥hat Tantrasāra, this text is on the worship of the Dasamahavidya goddesses. The author Krishnananda drew from tantra texts of Shaiva, Ganapathi, Shak...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A textual commentary in the Nyaya tradition authored by Vācaspatimiśra.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The seventh of 18 parvas, it describes the appointment of Drona as commander-in-chief of the Kaurava alliance, on the 11th day of the Kurukshetra War and his death four d...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A commentary on the Kātantra, a treatise on Sanskrit grammar.