Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
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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’.
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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).
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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.
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Śaka 1777 (1855 ce.)
MS Sinhalese 31
A Sinhala Buddhist text known as ‘The string of offerings’ (to Buddha) by Buddhaputra Mahāthera in 1266. It is an encyclopedic Sinhala prose work.
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MS Sinhalese 28
This contains Sarpa vedakama (treatment for snake bite), Demaḷa siṃhala vaidya akārādiyaka (Tamil-Sinhala medical lexicon on herbs), Veda potak: sarvāṅga veda potak (Sinh...
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MS Sinhalese 12
This is a composite manuscript of Sanskrit astrological texts with Sinhala paraphrase. It contains Santāna-dīpikā vyākhyānaya (Skt-Sinh.), an astrological text, verses in...
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MS Sinhalese 6
A Sinhala medical text that describes sprains, fractures and its treatments.
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MS Sanskrit gamma 45
This seventh-century text of Āyurveda synthesized the work of Ćaraka and Suśruta to give a clear formulation of illness (as imbalance of the humours), and was used as a t...
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MS Sanskrit epsilon 1
A 12th-century manuscript from Nepal of one of the foundational texts of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It contains 8,000 sutras on the practice for perfecting wisdom.
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7 century
MS Sanskrit delta 2
Serial no.679. Scribal foliation 1-451, with lacunae (gaps in the text). Paper, with colophon in red ink. This colophon suggests a relationship between the author, Vāgbha...
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