Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
Wellcome Collection
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MS Sanskrit alpha 978
A collection of brief hymns addressed to Hindu deities and ‘ekaśloki’ summaries of the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata. Texts are in Sanskrit, each prefigured by an illustration...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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ark:/12148/btv1b10020184r
The manuscript has two texts. Jyotiṣasaṃgraharatnamālā is an astrological text. Dānatithi/Dānatithaya specifies appropriate times to make donations.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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ark:/12148/btv1b53170457c
This is an astrological text written in verse and prose.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Saṃvat 1827 (1771 ce.)
ark:/12148/btv1b53164695z
The text relates to astrology. Birth and processes of purification are described, and examples are given. There is a table associated with ‘lagna’ or the ascendent sign a...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Saṃvat 1617(1561 ce.)
ark:/12148/btv1b53160908b
This is from Triṣaṣṭisāraprabandha, written by the preceptor of Bajrasena.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Saṃvat 1782; Śakābda 1647 (1726 CE)
ark:/12148/btv1b53154018d
This contains verses to be recited when making sacrificial offerings.
Wellcome Collection
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MS Sanskrit beta 359
Authored by Nityanātha Siddha son of Pārvatī, this is a verse work on alchemy and metallic medicines used in Āyurveda. It has only two out of five chapters, Rasa and asen...
Wellcome Collection
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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...
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection
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MS Sanskrit alpha 721
The manuscript is on Jyotiṣa. There are references to phala, lagna, rāśi etc.
Wellcome Collection
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MS Sanskrit O.36
A manuscript on yoga, and the practice of āsanas, prāṇāyāma, mudrā, bandha and ṣaṭkarma.