Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
University of Pennsylvania
1700–1850
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This is a treatise on Vedānta philosophy. The manuscript contains a sub-commentary, Bhāṣyaratnaprabhā, on Śaṃkarācārya’s Śārīrakamīmāṃsā-bhāṣya, which itself is a comment...
University of Pennsylvania
1700–1850
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This is a treatise on Advaita philosophy. The manuscript contains a sub-commentary on the Śārīrakamīmāṃsā-bhāṣya, titled Bhāṣyaratnaprabhā (fols. 18a–29b), composed by Go...
University of Pennsylvania
1700–1850
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This is a treatise on Advaita philosophy. The manuscript contains a commentary on the Śārīrakamīmāṃsā by Śaṃkarācārya, titled Śārīrakamīmāṃsā-bhāṣya (fols. 1b–17b), as we...
University of Pennsylvania
1700–1850
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A Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika text, also known as Kārikāvalī or Paribhāṣāpariccheda, was composed by Viśvanātha Nyāyapañcānana, the son of Vidyānivāsa. This manuscript contains the f...
University of Pennsylvania
1700–1850
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A Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika text, also known as Kārikāvalī or Paribhāṣāpariccheda, was composed by Viśvanātha Nyāyapañcānana, the son of Vidyānivāsa. This manuscript contains the f...
University of Pennsylvania
1700–1850
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This work contains mantras from the Sāmaveda, with accent notation marks written in red ink above the letters. The accent notation system of the Sāmaveda differs from tha...
University of Pennsylvania
1782 Śaka Saṃvat (1806 CE)
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A commentary on the first section of Jagannātha's Bhāminīvilāsa, composed by Gaṅgādhara, contains—at the beginning of the manuscript (incipit)—details about the commentat...
University of Pennsylvania
1889 Vikrama Saṃvat (1832 CE)
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This is a kāvya text composed by Paṇḍitarāja Jagannātha (17th century). Originally, the work was divided into four sections: Prāstāvika, Śṛṅgāra, Karuṇa, and Śānta. Howev...
University of Pennsylvania
1700–1850
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This text describes the Gaṇādhyakṣa-Bhālacandra Pūjā and the stories of King Hariścandra, Ṛṣiśarman, and Kulāla, highlighting their connection to the ritual. The narrativ...
University of Pennsylvania
1700–1850
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A Jain text written in the Prākṛt language discusses the sādhana-vidhi (the text begins with bhaktāmara-sādhivānī-vidhi) of the Bhaktāmara Stotra attributed to Mānatuṅga....
University of Pennsylvania
1800's
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This is a stotra text praising Bhairava by chanting a thousand of his names. The text contains 192 verses composed in the form of a dialogue between Maheśvara and Pārvatī...
University of Pennsylvania
1788 Śaka Saṃvat, 1923 Vikrama Saṃvat (1866 CE)
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A treatise on Jyotiṣa discusses astrological inquiries into the future. The text contains multiple such questions (praśna) and corresponding predictions. It includes svar...