Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Saṃvat 1954 (1898 ce.)
ark:/12148/btv1b53153996w
This text of Jain philosophy is a bilingual manuscript, with Prakrit and Sanskrit versions.
Wellcome Collection
19th century
MS Sinhalese 349
Incomplete palm-leaf manuscript in verse and prose, technical instructions on iron smelting in Sri Lanka during the 18th century. This local industry is dead now. It is d...
Wellcome Collection
1872 ce. (October 19)
MS Sinhalese 88
A panegyric on King Sri Vikrama Rājasimha, the last king of Sri-Lanka (no title, author or date).
Wellcome Collection
19th century
MS Sinhalese 79
This covers areas like nädi or pulse beat (Tamil text copied in Sinhala script with Sinhala paraphrase), fevers and their treatment, with pills and other prescriptions.
Wellcome Collection
Śaka 1777 (1855 ce.)
MS Sinhalese 31
A Sinhala Buddhist text known as ‘The string of offerings’ (to Buddha) by Buddhaputra Mahāthera in 1266. It is an encyclopedic Sinhala prose work.
Aksheswara Mahavira
Nepala Saṃvata - 932 (1811 ce.)
EAP1296/2/201
This text has salutation songs called Caryāgīta dedicated to various Buddhist ties. These are sung in accompaniment to ritual dances. This includes mention of three later...
Aksheswara Mahavira
Vikrama Saṃvata - 1930 (1873 ce.)
EAP1296/2/181
A text on different Hindu deities.
Aksheswara Mahavira
Nepala saṃvat - 960 (1839 ce.)
EAP1296/2/177
A Buddhist ritual text on initiation ritual and worshipping Uṣṇiśa Maṇḍala.
Aksheswara Mahavira
Nepala Saṃvat - 949 (?) (1828 ce.)
EAP1296/2/121
According to NCC this is a Tantra text on medicine, magic, enticement, poison-cure, alchemy. Some manuscripts identify the author as Pārvatīputra Nityanātha, others as Nā...
Aksheswara Mahavira
Nepala saṃvat - 971 (1850 ce.)
EAP1296/2/115
A Mahāyāna Sūtra, said to be uttered by the Buddha on Gṛdhrakūṭaparvata at Rājagṛha, and highly revered in Mongolia (NCC). Its fundamental message teaches that the Four H...
Aksheswara Mahavira
Nepala Saṃvata - 931 (1810 ce.)
EAP1296/2/97
This sutra text describes Sukhāvatī, realm of Bodhisattva Amitābha.
Aksheswara Mahavira
Śaka - 1813 (1891 ce.)
EAP1296/2/74
This is a printed copy of a Hindu ritual text. The post colophon describes the genealogy of the author as: Dinakarabhaṭṭa son of Rāmakṛṣṇabhṭṭa, son of Nārāyaṇabhṭṭa, son...