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3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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This contains the Bālakāṇḍa and Ayodhyākāṇḍa, the first two of the seven cantos of Vālmīki’s epic.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A detailed analytic commentary on Sivasütra by Rājānaka Rāma, pupil of Utpaladeva, exponent of the Trika Saivism of Kashmir.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A text on Advaita Vedānta. Though it is attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, it includes views at variance with his, such as the denial of the jīvanmukta being subject to prārabdh...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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This contains Durgasiṃha’s commentary on Yāska’s Nirukta, a text on the derivations of words, and is in continuation of MS ark:/12148/btv1b10084028x.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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This contains Durgasiṃha’s commentary on Yāska’s Nirukta, a text on the derivations of words, and is continued at MS ark:/12148/btv1b10084029c.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The first of 18 parvas, it describes how Vedavyāsa’s Sanskrit epic came to be recited by Ugrasrava Sauti to the assembled rishis at the Naimisha forest after its first re...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The first text of this composite manuscript is also known as Bhāsvatīkaraṇa or Pañca siddhānta, and was authored in 1099 by Śatānanda (Muktādhara), son of Śaṅkara and Sar...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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ark:/12148/btv1b10084041m
A text on human wellbeing and curative and preventive health care.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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ark:/12148/btv1b10083071h
The first text of this composite manuscript is also known as Bhāsvatīkaraṇa or Pañca siddhānta, and was authored in 1099 by Śatānanda (Muktādhara), son of Śaṅkara and Sar...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A commentary on Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya (itself a commentary on Kātyāyana’s commentary on Pāṇini). The author is Lakṣmaṇa, son of Murāri Pāṭhaka. The manuscript contains f...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The fifth of 18 parvas, it describes the preparation for war, and includes didactic sections like Viduranīti and Dūtapranidhi.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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ark:/12148/btv1b100831853
The sixth of 18 parvas, this describes Bhīṣma’s leadership of the Kaurava army. It includes treatises like Jambūdvīpanirṇaya, Bhuvanakośa and Bhagavadgītā.