Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b10082575v
A commentary on Saṅkṣiptasāra, a grammar text authored by Kramadīśvara, The first page of the manuscript has Caṇḍīdeva Śarman's commentary.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b53148158h
This is Puñjarāja’s commentary on Sàrasvata Prakriya, a vyakarana (grammar) text authored by Anubhūti Svarūpācārya (c. 1250 and 1450) that draws on both the Paninian and...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b10084030r
A texts on the rules applying to suffixes (taddhita) in Sanskrit, which include verbal and nominal endings, and the suffixes that turn verb roots into verb stems.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b10083947c
An important text of the Svetambara Jain tradition in western India, this is a treatise on the ‘ratna-traya’ (three jewels): right belief, right knowledge and right condu...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b10083186j
The fourth of 18 parvas, it describes the Pandavas’ 13th year of exile which they must spend incognito or face another 12 years’ exile in the forest. They assume the iden...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b100831228
A continuation of MS No. ark:/12148/btv1b10083123q on the 12th parva of the Mahābhārata.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b10083123q
This is the 12th of 18 parvas. Traditionally it has three subparvas: Rājadharma, Apaddharma-anusasana and Mokṣadharma, but this manuscript includes Dānadharma. The text d...
Gallica Portal, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits.Sanscrit 358
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b100832072
The first of 18 parvas, it describes how the epic came to be recited by Ugrasrava Sauti to the assembled rishis at the Naimisha forest after its first recital by Vaishamp...
Gallica Portal, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits.Sanscrit 358
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b100831262
The eighth of 18 parvas, this describes the appointment of Karṇa as the third commander-in-chief of the Kaurava alliance and how he is killed in conbat with Arjuna. It in...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b10082690t
A composite manuscript, with Vedic, Kāvya, Jyotiṣa and Śiva stotra texts.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b100826935
A composite manuscript, its second text is an important work of Kashmir Saivism from the 13th century.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b10083206m
The second of 18 parvas, this describes the palace and assembly hall (sabha) built by Maya at Indraprastha, the expansion of the Pandava empire, and the game of dice betw...