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1. Add MS 16624

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Title:
Bhagavata Purana
Scope & Content:
Bhagavata Purana in Sanskrit copied on a roll (65 ft x 3 in) of burnished paper. The text in minute Devanagari writing is illustrated by miniatures depicting Hindu deities and scenes from the life of Krishna. This manuscript was probably made in Rajasthan in the 18th century.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 16626

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Title:
Vishnusahasranama
Scope & Content:
The Vishnusahasranama, the Thousand Names of Vishnu in Sanskrit, an extract from the Mahabharata. Copied in large Devanagari writing by a Kashmirian scribe, Pandit Motirama. The text, enclosed in frames painted in colour and gold, is accompanied by several elaborate miniatures depicting Hindu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
1 item

3. MSS Avestan 19

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MSS Avestan 19
Title:
Menoy i khrad followed by fragments of Afrins and Aogemadaeca
Scope & Content:
The Pazand-Sanskrit version of the Mēnōy ī khrad followed by fragments of Āfrīns and Aogemadaēca Contents: (1) The Pazand-Sanskrit version of the Pahlavi Mēnōy ī khrad composed by Naryosangh Dhaval in the12th century. Although it lacks the first folio containing Naryosangh’s introduction, the...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1521
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+149 (f. 149 blank)

4. MSS Avestan 19, ff 1r-132v

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MSS Avestan 19, ff 1r-132v
Title:
The Pazand-Sanskrit version of the Pahlavi Mēnōy ī khrad
Scope & Content:
The Pazand-Sanskrit version of the Pahlavi Mēnōy ī khrad composed by Naryosangh Dhaval in the 12th century. Although it lacks the first folio containing Naryosangh’s introduction, the text itself is complete. A Pahlavi colophon on f. 132r, copied from an older manuscript, names the (presumably ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1521
Extent:
ff. 1r-132v

5. MSS Avestan 19, ff 133r-148r

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MSS Avestan 19, ff 133r-148r
Title:
Fragments of Āfrīns and Aogemadaēca in Avestan, Pazand and Sanskrit
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1521
Extent:
Ff. 133r-148r

6. Or 1386

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Or 1386
Title:
Bṛhaccūrṇivyākhyā
Scope & Content:
Bṛhaccūrṇivyākhyā (Jain Śvetāmbara): Sanskrit commentary on the Jītakalpa (composed in V.S. 1227). It is also called Ṭippana (Viṣamapadavyākhyā) and comments on the eleven Prakrit verses of the cūrṇi and then the difficult expressions found in the following prose portion. Śrīcandrasūri was the...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
13th C
Extent:
Palm leaf, poṭhi format, 78 folios. 30x5cm.

7. Or 4736

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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

8. Or 13294

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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.

9. Or 13342

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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.

10. Or 13455

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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.

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