Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_139
This manuscript contains two different texts. The first is Āryaśūra's Jātakamālā, a Buddhist text written in prose and verses; this style is known as campū kāvya. The aut...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_133
A Sanskrit kāvya composed of 50 lyrical verses, ascribed to Bilhaṇa, an 11th-century Kashmiri poet. However, it is sometimes also ascribed to Cora, Sundara, or Vararuci....
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_127
This manuscript contains a Newari commentary on the Cāṇakyasārasaṅgraha, a text that contains nīti verses ascribed to Cāṇakya. Many texts have been found under the same c...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_111
A 14th century (probably) Tantra text composed by Jagaddarpaṇa, also known as Darpaṇācārya, is a significant work on Tantric rituals. It plays a key role in monastic arch...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_101
A Mahākāvya contains 18 cantos (sarga) based on an episode from the Mahābhārata. It narrates the story of Arjuna's penance and the war between Śiva, disguised as Kirāta,...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_99
A Buddhist Tantra text contains five paṭalas (chapters) that deal with Buddhist cosmology, the Kālacakra calendar, the birth and death of universes, the birth of humans,...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_95
A 17-act (sarga) Mahākāvya on the story of Kārtavīrya Arjuna, the son of Haihaya king Kṛtavīrya, a Puranic king, was famous for his valour and also because of his physica...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_79
An Avadāna text contains five stories related to the Aśoka-Upagupta chronicles (Mitra, 1882, pp. 292-303). Originally, the text had 26 stories, but this manuscript includ...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_78
The Mahāyāna-sūtra consists of five chapters, called parivarttas, which describe the continent of Padmadhātu, its king Araṇemi, his priest and 500 sons, as well as its Ta...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_60
This text is the 6th chapter of the Divyāvadāna, which tells the story of a self-obsessed brāhmaṇa named Indra and how he was enlightened by Gautama Buddha. The story als...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_38
This is a vrata text praising the Buddhist goddess Vasundhārā (or Vasudhārā). She is the goddess of both wealth and prosperity, and this text describes the positive impac...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_37
This narrates the story of the birth and life of the Mauryan king Aśoka.