Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
University of Copenhagen
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112760_M024CA_4039_CS
This text derived from Mahānirvāṇatantra, and contains mantras for obtaining fortune through acts of piety, and by writing the name of Rāma.
University of Copenhagen
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112759_M023CA_4038_CS
A text on lexicography that explains various words (starting with vyañjana or consonants) and their synonyms. It has words from ‘ka’ to ‘ma’.
University of Copenhagen
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112758_M022CA_4037_CS
An astrological text, with an unidentified commentary, which discusses age groups: dīrghāyu, madhya and alpāyu.
University of Copenhagen
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112754_M020A_4036_CS
A concise introduction to Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika written by Annaṃbhaṭṭa in 1623 ce, showing how the universe can be analyzed through natural language. The text breaks off half-w...
University of Copenhagen
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112753_M019A_4035_CS
This text derives from Bṛhadrāmāyaṇa, and describes the beauty and religious importance of the Citrakūṭa mountain.
University of Copenhagen
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112747_M010A_4032_CS
This is a dharmaśāstra text, addressing topics like śrāddha, śaucāśauca and śuddhi, prāyaśchitta, Ucchiṣṭa bhojana prāyaśchitta, Praśastivākya, ṛṇādāna. The author mentio...
University of Copenhagen
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112737_M003A_4031_CS
A text on jyotiṣa divided into four prakaraṇas. Each prakaraṇa is identified by a letter (a, va, pa and da), with further sub-divisions in each.
University of Copenhagen
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113248_M018A_4063_CS
This appears to be an incomplete commentary on Bhāgavata Purāṇa, and is written in two different hands.
University of Copenhagen
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113226_M013A_4059_CS
The incomplete first canto of Kālidāsa’s Sanskrit mahākāvya that narrates the story of several generations of the descendants of Raghu, ancestor of Lord Rāma (‘vaṃśa’ mea...
University of Copenhagen
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112752_M017A_4062_CS
This appears to be a commentary on Sārasvatīprakriyā of Anubhūti Svarūpācārya (1270 c.), authored by Puñjarāja, who was a minister at the court of Sultan Giasuddin Khilji...
University of Copenhagen
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112757_M021CA_4064_CS
An incomplete manuscript of a text on jyotiṣa, which talks about auspicious timings for conducting different rituals.
University of Copenhagen
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112751_M016A_4061_CS
A poem in praise of the sun god, written by Mayūra (580 c.–650 c.), with a commentary titled Sārtha by Bālambhaṭṭa. Its recitation is supposed to cure leprosy. It has two...