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Language Sanskrit Level [32] Fonds

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4595
Title:: Account of the inscriptions of monuments in Delhi
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an account of the inscriptions of the monuments of Delhi including illustrations and diagrams. It was originally compiled by Ḥāfiẓ al-Dīn Aḥmad. This manuscript was copied by Aṣghār ˁalī Beg, known as Sangīn Beg, the author of Sayyir al-manāzil (Add MS 24053). Some text copi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1817
Extent:: 1 text, 119 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4736
Title:: Alphabets and inscriptions
Scope & Content:: Khmer and Lao alphabets. Facsimiles of Sanskrit, Thai, Lao and Khmer inscriptions from Angkor and Korat made by Henri Mouhot, including the first five lines of the Ramkhamhaeng stone inscription. Henri Mouhot's travel documents issued by Siamese authorities.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Central Khmer, Lao, Sanskrit, and Thai
Date Range:: 1860-1861
Extent:: 19 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8837
Title:: Bhagavad Gita
Scope & Content:: The Bhagavad Gita, poem in form of a dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna. The Sanskrit text (700 verses divided in eighteen chapters), inscribed in black and red ink in clear Devanagari writing, is illustrated by seventeen miniature paintings in coloured frames with floral decorations depictin...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item (bound volume 12mo)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13294
Title:: Aḍhāīdvīpa
Scope & Content:: Aḍhāīdvīpa: a diagram of the universe according to the Śvetāmbara tradition of Jainism. The text in Sanskrit and Gujarati is organized in four sections, around the painting.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 19th C
Extent:: Cloth. 66,5 x 69 cm. Colourful. Kept under a glass frame.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13342
Title:: Kalpasūtra fragments.
Scope & Content:: Kalpasūtra: fragments from the canonical Śvetāmbara text in Prakrit with illustrations.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 16th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. Four illustrated folios: Or. 13342 (1)-(4) kept in four separate glass frames which has been edged with green leather. They belong to the same ms. 26 x 10 cm.; 7 lines. Illustrated.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13455
Title:: Kalpasūtra with Sanskrit glosses.
Scope & Content:: Kalpasūtra: incomplete version of the canonical Śvetāmbara text in Prakrit with Sanskrit glosses and illustrations.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. 90 folios; 28 x 9 cm, 8 lines. Illustrated.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13475
Title:: Kālakācārya-kathā
Scope & Content:: Kālakācārya-kathā in Sanskrit in the version known as Śrīvīravākyānumatam. Verse tale of the Jain Śvetāmbara tradition.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 17th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. 9 folios; 28x12 cm, 9 lines. Illustrated.

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