Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
TUCL
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EAP1023/25/22
Mahakala Samhita is a Tantric text related to Goddess Mahakali. It is believed to have been composed in the 10th century and is ascribed to Adinath. Mahakali is the chief...
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
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EAP1023/25/17
A complete text of the purāṇa, also called Satī Purāṇa, thought to originate in the Assam region in the 10th‒11th centuries. It includes the story of Satī, of sacred site...
TUCL
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EAP1023/25/14
This has the 18th and 19th paṭala (chapter) of the text, which describes yoginīcakras and characteristics of yoginīs as told by God Bhairava. It is written in Pracalit Ne...
TUCL
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EAP1023/25/12
A text of Vedantic Śaivism from the Śiva-Rāghavasaṃvāda, in the Uttara Kāṇḍa of the Padma Purāṇa. The manuscript goes upto Mokṣayoga (16th adhyāya). The work is ascribed...
TUCL
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EAP1023/25/9
A book on astrology in pracalit Newari, whose authorship is attributed to Sugrīva.
TUCL
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EAP1023/25/8
The first part of the manuscript has ‘Utpāta Lakṣaṇam’ (Utpāta rakṣaṇam?), which is attributed to Āryāvalokiteāśvara. It is followed by a text on astrology, and over 19 f...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A Mahayana Buddhist sutra, said to have been preached by the Buddha in Lanka, first to the serpent king, and then, at the invitation of Rāvana, to an assembly of monks an...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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ark:/12148/btv1b10082948g
A collection of 100 Buddhist stories relating the deeds of previous lives to present experience.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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ark:/12148/btv1b100829130
A Mahayana Buddhist sutra that tells the story of Gautama Buddha from his descent from Tushita until his first sermon at Sarnath.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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ark:/12148/btv1b100822263
The Mahayana ‘Lotus Sutra’, which explains that the Tathagata did not pass on into final nirvana, but is still active teaching the Dharma.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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This derives from the Skandapurana, and describes the sacredness of Kāśī, also known as Anandvan and Vārāṇasī.