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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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13502
Title:: Gitagovinda
Scope & Content:: Sanskrit poem by Jayadeva (born in the12th century) on the love of Krishna and Radha also seen as a symbol of the straying of the human soul and its redemption through devotion to God. Most folios have incised drawings in good Orissan style of the 18th century.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 63 folios (numbered 1-15, 15-62), palm leaves (4.5 x 24 cm) pothi format, 5 lines between ruled margins.

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)

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