Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/ark:/12148/btv1b531570744
A Sanskrit mahākāvya (‘epic poem’) by Kālidāsa, telling the story of several generations of the descendants of Raghu, ancestor of Lord Rāma (‘vaṃśa’ means lineage). The m...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/ark:/12148/btv1b10082725j
An ākhyāyikā kāvya that tells stories from the life of king Harṣavadhana of Sthāṇvīśvara by Bāṇabhaṭṭa (570–650), whose patron was King Harṣavardhana (606–648) of Sthāṇvī...
TUCL
Date not listed
EAP1023/15/7
A work ascribed to Kālidāsa with a commentary; the manuscript is in fragments.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b10082536n
A long series of fervent erotic verses on Kṛṣṇalīlā taken from Vaiṣṇava dramas. It is ascribed to the Vaiṣṇava philosopher Rūpagosvāmin.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date not listed
ark:/12148/btv1b53170457c
This is an astrological text written in verse and prose.
Wellcome Collection
Date not listed
MS Sinhalese 107
It is a Sinhala prose work by Vidyā Cakravarti Parākrama-Paṇḍita of Polonnaruva on ‘The lineage of the Thupas’.
Aksheswara Mahavira
Date not listed
EAP1296/2/194
An avadāna text on how past lives bear fruit in the present.
Aksheswara Mahavira
Date not listed
EAP1296/2/180
An Avadāna text on how previous lives affect the present.
Aksheswara Mahavira
Aksheswara Mahavira
Date not listed
EAP1296/2/95
This an avadāna text with different stories about the Buddha.
Aksheswara Mahavira
Date not listed
EAP1296/2/85
This an avadāna text. It has a collection of legends on rites (vrata). Like all avadāna texts, the narrative frame is a conversation between the monk Upagupta and King Aś...