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Śiśupālavadha
EAP1023/25/24
The first ten cantos of Shishupala Vadha, one of the six Sanskrit mahakavyas (epic poems). Composed by Māgha in the 7th or 8th century, it has 20 cantos of about 1800 hig...
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Rāghava Pānḍaviya Mahākāvya
EAP1023/25/21
This contains all 13 sarga-s of the mahākāvya by Kavirājapaṇḍita, which uses śleṣa to narrate the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata simultaneously. Kavirājapaṇḍita (or Kavirāja Sū...
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Mudrārākṣasa
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...
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Prabodha Candrodaya
EAP1023/25/18
Contains all six acts of the Sanskrit play written by Kṛṣṇa Miśra in the 11th century (‘Rise of the Moon of Knowledge’), which depicts the battle in the mind of Puruṣa be...
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Rāmāyaṇa Sundarakāṇḍa
EAP1023/25/4
This contains episodes from the fifth book of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (the title page refers to it as the fourth), from Hanumāna’s leap across the ocean to the building of t...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Rāmāyaṇa
ark:/12148/btv1b100832233
This contains all seven Kāṇḍas of the Rāmāyaṇa (the Laṅkākāṇḍa is incomplete).
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Sundarakāṇḍa.
ark:/12148/btv1b100827315
This is the fifth Kāṇḍa of Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa and describes Hanumān’s journey to Laṅkā.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Laṅkākāṇḍa
ark:/12148/btv1b10083220r
This is from the Rāmāyaṇa and describes the war between the armies of Rāma and Rāvaṇa, the victory of Rāma, and the enthronement of Rāvaṇa’s brother Vibhīṣaṇa.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Mahābhārata Araṇyaparva
ark:/12148/btv1b100832038
The third parva, chronicling the 12-year exile of the Pāṇḍavas in a forest.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Abhijñānaśākuntala
ark:/12148/btv1b10532638r
The Sanskrit drama by Kalidasa, derived by a story in the Mahabharata, dated to c. 4th century ce. There are seven acts.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Mithyātakhaṇḍananāṭika
ark:/12148/btv1b53164709d
A Jain text by Bakhtarāma (1764) which refers to the Digambara sect Terā-panth, started in the 17th century by a group which distanced itself from prevalent modes of wors...