Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
TUCL
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EAP1023/25/20
An incomplete manuscript of the Sanskrit play by Viśākhadatta on the ascent to power of King Candragupta Maurya, dated to the sixth century CE. The seventh (last) aṅka is...
TUCL
TUCL
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EAP790/21/73
This manuscript has 82 sargas of the Araṇyakāṇḍa and is dated 1789/1790 CE.
TUCL
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EAP790/21/68
A mahākāvya authored by Śrīharṣa in the 12th century based on the story of Nala, king of Niṣadha. The manuscript contains 10 of 12 chapters and is dated Nepal Saṃvat 778...
TUCL
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EAP1023/19/13
Excerpt from the 11th-century Sanskrit drama by Kṛṣṇamiśra depicting the battle between Mahāmoha (‘great delusion’) and Viveka (‘discrimination) in the mind of man (Puruṣ...
Aksheswara Mahavira
Aksheswara Mahavira
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EAP1296/2/85
This an avadāna text. It has a collection of legends on rites (vrata). Like all avadāna texts, the narrative frame is a conversation between the monk Upagupta and King Aś...
Aksheswara Mahavira
Nepala Saṃvata - 1043 (1922 ce.)
EAP1296/2/84
This a well-known avadāna text.
Aksheswara Mahavira
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EAP1296/2/76
This is an avadāna text, of which the manuscript contains the 22nd chapter, the Padmāvadāna.
Aksheswara Mahavira
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EAP1296/2/50
This is a Buddhist sūtra text, with select chapters from the Suvarṇaprabhāsottama sūtra.
Aksheswara Mahavira
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EAP1296/2/13
Birth stories of the Buddha, perhaps from the Avadāna-Śataka where the stories are told as prophesies.