Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_485
A poem in praise of the sun god, composed in 100 verses and attributed to Mayūra (c. 580–650 CE). Mayūra was a contemporary of King Harṣa and Bāṇabhaṭṭa. Recitation of th...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_389
This is a manuscript of the Śiṣyalekha, a text from the Buddhist epistolary genre (lekha). The work was written by the Buddhist grammarian and poet Candragomin, who lived...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_285
"The Mahajjātakamāla was composed in late medieval Nepal (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries C.E.); half of its contents paraphrase an earlier Mahāyāna sūtra, the Karuṇa...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_264
The Bodhicaryāvatāra, composed by the eighth-century Nalanda monk Śāntideva, is a key Mahāyāna Buddhist text outlining the Bodhisattva path. Written in verse, it is struc...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_263
The Bodhicaryāvatāra, composed by the eighth-century Nalanda monk Śāntideva, is a key Mahāyāna Buddhist text outlining the Bodhisattva path. Written in verse, it is struc...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_262
The Bodhicaryāvatāra, composed by the eighth-century Nalanda monk Śāntideva, is a key Mahāyāna Buddhist text outlining the Bodhisattva path. Written in verse, it is struc...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_256
Written by the Buddhist poet Aśvaghoṣa, a contemporary of Emperor Kanishka, this mahākāvya (epic poem) narrates the life of the Buddha in verse. Only thirteen cantos of t...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_219
Folio 1 a, 1b damaged. Folios 17 a to 23b have a torn corner. Tear on 32a and 32b. Current condition of the manuscript is fragmented, with Chp 12, 16 and a chapter. Origi...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_139
This manuscript contains two different texts. The first is Āryaśūra's Jātakamālā, a Buddhist text written in prose and verses; this style is known as campū kāvya. The aut...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_136
This is a Buddhist text written in prose and verses; this style is known as campū kāvya. The author of the text is Āryaśūra, who belonged to the late 3rd or early 4th cen...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_133
A Sanskrit kāvya composed of 50 lyrical verses, ascribed to Bilhaṇa, an 11th-century Kashmiri poet. However, it is sometimes also ascribed to Cora, Sundara, or Vararuci....