Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_82
A Jātaka story taken from the Vratāvadānamālā, in which Upagupta tells the story of Prince Kavikumāra to King Aśoka. According to Upagupta’s narration, this story was fir...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_77
An Avadāna text containing nine chapters describes the importance of almsgiving. The text is associated with the previous Buddha, Dīpaṅkara. The story begins in a large a...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_76
An Avadāna text containing nine chapters describes the importance of almsgiving. The text is associated with the previous Buddha, Dīpaṅkara. The story begins in a large a...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_75
The Avadāna text comprises 18 chapters. While Matsunami refers to this text as Kapīśāvadāna, the colophon of the manuscript identifies it as Kavitāvadāna. Kapīśāvadāna co...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_74
This is a Newari commentary on Kapilapātrāvadāna. 'Kapilapātrāvadāna (A version of °), in śloka form, with a vernacular commentary, incomplete' (Matsunami, 1965, pp. 31-3...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_73
A Buddhist text narrates the story of previous Buddha Dīpaṅkara Buddha. It also discusses Buddhist rituals to praise the Buddhas. This seems to be a rare text.
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_72
A commentary on the Kaṭhināvadāna, a text that discusses the merits of charity, abstinence, and other virtues during the one-month period of Kaṭhina (Buddhist abstention)...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_42
This text is a part of the Vīrakuśāvadāna and describes the story of King Subandhu, who has no children, and how he became the father of a son born from a sugarcane plant...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_39
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_36
This manuscript contains chapters 22–25 of the Aśokāvadāna.
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_35
This narrates the story of the birth and life of the Mauryan king Aśoka.
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_34
This text is the third chapter of the Aśokāvadāna. This narrates the story of the birth and life of the Mauryan king Aśoka.