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Language Prakrit Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [32] Fonds

1. Add 26374

Reference (shelfmark):
Add 26374
Title:
Laghu-Kṣetrasamāsa by Ratnaśekhara with Pārśvacandra's Tabo
Scope & Content:
Laghu-Kṣetrasamāsa by Ratnaśekhara with Pārśvacandra's Ṭabo. Classic work on Jain cosmology in Prakrit (265 vss.) with explanation in Gujarati.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Gujarati and Prakrit
Date Range:
1769
Extent:

Paper. Poṭhi bound in volume. Folios 10-11-12 and 41-42 bound in wrong sequence. 30 x 12 cm; 22 x 11 cm. Lines: 4(m), ca. 18(ṭ), interlinear. Folios 10-11-12 and 41-42 bound in wrong sequence. Illustrated. Good condition.

2. EAP781/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1
Title:
Santipur and its neighbourhood: text and image production history from early modern Bengal through public and private collections
Scope & Content:
The project is a digitisation programme of all available rare books from the earliest time till 1950s and in Bengali language housed in selected libraries. Once the project is over the materials will be available to scholars both in-house and through http access. The original materials are locate...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, Bengali, English, Hindi, Maithili, Panjabi, Prakrit, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
8th century-18th century
Extent:
291,035 TIFF images

3. IO SAN 607a

Reference (shelfmark):
IO SAN 607a
Title:
Nandighoṣavijaya or Kamalāvilāsa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1666
Extent:
foll. 51

4. IO SAN 3177

Reference (shelfmark):
IO SAN 3177
Title:
Kalpasūtra + Kālakācārya-kathānaka by Devacandrasūri
Scope & Content:
Kalpasūtra + Kālakācārya-kathānaka by Devacandrasūri in Prakrit. A canonical and a narrative text from the Jain Śvetāmbara tradition. This is the ms. used by Jacobi for his edition, translation and glossary of the Kālaka-story in Das Kālakācārya-Kathānakam ZDMG 34, 1880, pp. 258-278. At that ti...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
15th C
Extent:

Paper poṭhi bound in volume. Original foliation: 1-154. 29 x 9 cm.; 23 x 5 cm. 6 lines. Twofold ms. with three margins of 2 cm., two on the sides, and one as a separation between the two parts of the ms. Good condition. `It is written with silver on 113 leaves, most of which are painted alternatively black and red. ... There are many pictures in the text, and arabesques on the margin. (MSS. of this kind are not unfrequent with the Jainas' (Jacobi, see below). The leaves are indeed lavishly decorated. Their background are either black or pink. Fol. 2 is written in golden letters with a cream-coloured background. Borders are also sometimes richly decorated. The same is true with the middle margin which separates the leaf into two parts.

5. Or 5149

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5149
Title:
Kalpasūtra
Scope & Content:
Kalpasūtra: Jain Śvetāmbara text in Prakrit containing the biographies of Jain Tirthankaras.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
15th C
Extent:
Bound paper poṭhi. 80 folios, 26x11 cm. Illustrated.

6. Or 11921

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11921
Title:
Kalpasūtra
Scope & Content:
Kalpasūtra: Jain Śvetāmbara text in Prakrit containing the biographies of Jain Tirthankaras.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
15th C
Extent:
Bound paper poṭhi. 74 folios; 28.5x11,5 cm. 38 illustrated folios.

7. Or 12744

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12744
Title:
Kalpasūtra
Scope & Content:
Kalpasūtra: Jain Śvetāmbara text in Prakrit containing the biographies of Jain Tirthankaras.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
16th C
Extent:
Bound paper poṭhi. 93 folios; 33x12 cm. Illustrated.

8. Or 13454

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13454
Title:
Saṁgrahaṇīratna by Śrīcandra.
Scope & Content:
Saṁgrahaṇīratna: Jain Śvetāmbara text on cosmology in Prakrit with illustrations and diagrams.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
17th C
Extent:

Bound paper poṭhi. 25 x 11 cm. 10 lines. Lavishly illustrated

9. Or 13456

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13456
Title:
Saṁgrahaṇīratna with Gujarati commentary
Scope & Content:
Saṁgrahaṇīratna in Prakrit by Śrīcandra with Dharmameru's Gujarati. commentary. Jain cosmological work of the Śvetāmbara tradition with illustrations and diagrams.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Gujarati and Prakrit
Date Range:
19th C
Extent:

Bound paper poṭhi. 92 folios; 28,5 x 13,5 cm. Illustrated.

10. Or 13550

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13550
Title:
Āvaśyakaniryukti with prefixed Therāvalī
Scope & Content:
Āvaśyakaniryukti in Prakrit with prefixed Therāvalī. Canonical text on ethics of the Jain Śvetāmbara tradition.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
15th C
Extent:

Bound paper poṭhi , 26,5 x 11,5 cm. 15 lines. Red margins.