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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13652
Title:: Elephant treatise ตำราช้าง
Scope & Content:: A treatise on mythical and natural elephants in khlong verse. With some mantra texts in Sanskrit. Illustrations: 37 illustrated folios. fol. 3: Ganesha, the son of Shiva fol. 4: Erawan (Sanskrit: Airavata; Thai: เอราวัณ), the carrier of Indra, with two hermits, Thewakam on the left and Thewap...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit and Thai
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 49 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13741
Title:: Bhaktāmara-stotra
Scope & Content:: Bhaktāmara-stotra: Jain devotional hymn in Sanskrit. Illustrated with yantras.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 18th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. 24 folios, 29,5x13cm, 9 lines. 48 verses with diagrams.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13758
Title:: Bhagavad Gita
Scope & Content:: A fine version of the Bhagavad Gita from the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra with the full Sanskrit text and twenty-two miniatures depicting scenes from the Mahabharata and avatars of Vishnu. A note dated Novemeber 1877 by the former owner Sir M. Monier Williams is attached to the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1824
Extent:: 1 item (bound volume 11.5 x 18.5 cm, covers lined in red velvet)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13921
Title:: Padmapurana (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Extract from the Padmapurana in Sanskrit written in the Newari script during the reign of Jaya Rayamalla.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1500
Extent:: Palm leaf in pothi format, 62 folios with decorated metal boards.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13937
Title:: Aḍhāīdvīpa
Scope & Content:: Jain diagram of the Universe inhabited by human being with text in Sanskrit and Gujarati.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Gujarati and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 18th C
Extent:: Painting on cloth. 90x90 cm.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13946
Title:: Pancaraksa
Scope & Content:: The Five Protections: hymns to five Buddhist female deities invoked for protection against diseases, dangerous animals and other threats to human life. Copied in Nepal Samvat 797 (1676-1677) in Kathmandu. Illustrated: 10 miniatures of the goddesses and their Dhyani -Buddhas and one full page illu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1676-1677 AD
Extent:: 115 folios, black paper in pothi format (11.5 x 39.5 cm); 5 lines between ruled margins. Written with golden ink in Ranjana script.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13950
Title:: Kālikācārya-kathā (incomplete) and Kalpasūtra fragments
Scope & Content:: Kālikācārya-kathā (Sanskrit, 65 verses), incomplete and three fragments of the Kalpasūtra in Prakrit (Jain Śvetāmbara canon) with illustrations + a painted cardboard manuscript cover.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Prakrit and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 17th C
Extent:: Paper poṭhi, 10 folios (7+1+1+1) + 1 cardboard manuscript cover. Illustrated.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16981
Title:: Laghu-Kālacakratantra
Scope & Content:: An early version of the Laghu-Kālacakratantra in Sanskrit. Colophon: “….paramopāśaka Śrī Ajitāsena likhitaṃ [.] śakābtā 11 86 ….” (fol. 120r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1264
Extent:: foll.120, palm leaf pothi format. 6-7 lines per folio. 4.8x29.9cm (leaf), 3.2x25.5 (written)

Reference (shelfmark):: Rubbing 62
Title:: <<莫高窟六字真言碣>>拓本
Scope & Content:: Two rubbing inscriptions of the Stele of Sulaiman from the Mogao Caves. '莫高窟' (Mogao Caves) shows on the top, following a four-armed Avalokiteshvara seated in the middle. Surrounding the Boddhisattvas are 'Om mani padme hum' in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, Mongolian, Phags-pa, and Tangut. The st...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese, Mongolian, Sanskrit, Tangut, Tibetan, and Uighur
Date Range:: 1348-1943
Extent:: 1 box (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Seal CCV.4
Title:
Scope & Content:: CAST of a seal in Nagari characters being an invocation to Rama in doggerel Sanskrit, probably early 19th cent. Used to seal a letter written by Henry Edward Fox, afterwards 4th Baron Holland, to Eleanor, wife of John Nicholas Fazakerley, M.P., dated at Elba 5 October 1827, now Add. MS. 61937, f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1981
Extent:: 1 item

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