Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
Wellcome Collection
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MS Sinhalese 397
The text narrates the valour of Rājasiṃha II in the battle against the Portuguese.
Wellcome Collection
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MS Sinhalese 388
Palm-leaf manuscript of 19th century on methods of making fireworks. The quantities in the formulae are given in astrological numerals, and at times the names of chemical...
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MS Sinhalese 374
A ballad on the Ähälēpola minister whose intrigues with the British government led to the execution of his family by the last king of Kandy…..’ (Hugh Nevill Collection of...
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19th century
MS Sinhalese 349
Incomplete palm-leaf manuscript in verse and prose, technical instructions on iron smelting in Sri Lanka during the 18th century. This local industry is dead now. It is d...
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MS Sinhalese 326
An astrology text on birth chart predictions.
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late 18th century.
MS Sinhalese 277
A palm-leaf manuscript of possibly the late 18th century.
Wellcome Collection
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MS Sinhalese 213
An illustrated manuscript with yantras and maṇḍalas with a short mantra.
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MS Sinhalese 130
This work covers subjects like astrological predictions, charms, medicines etc. It describes means of protection from wild animals.
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MS Sinhalese 107
It is a Sinhala prose work by Vidyā Cakravarti Parākrama-Paṇḍita of Polonnaruva on ‘The lineage of the Thupas’.
Wellcome Collection
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MS Sinhalese 89
It is a Sinhala descriptive paraphrase on the Pāli text Catubhāṇavāra or the Pirit pota by Välviṭa Saraṇaṅkara Saṇgharāja.
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1872 ce. (October 19)
MS Sinhalese 88
A panegyric on King Sri Vikrama Rājasimha, the last king of Sri-Lanka (no title, author or date).
Wellcome Collection
19th century
MS Sinhalese 79
This covers areas like nädi or pulse beat (Tamil text copied in Sinhala script with Sinhala paraphrase), fevers and their treatment, with pills and other prescriptions.