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The largest part of the collection (17,877 Manuscripts) is part of the "Government Manuscript Library", while there is an additional collection of 11,633 manuscripts. The most prized collections include a paper manuscript of the Cikitsāsārasangraha dated 1320 and a palmleaf manuscript of the Upamitibhavaprapañcakathā dated 906.
Mahabharata: Story of Arjuna, of royal line of Kuru Kingdom: Sanskrit: Lord Ganesha while Veda Vyasa narrated it. 400 BCE - 400 CE [4] Purva Mimamsa Sutras: Sanskrit: Rishi Jaimini: 300 BCE - 200 BCE Bhagavad Gita: Krishna's advice to Arjuna on duty. Sanskrit: Veda Vyasa: 200 BCE - 200 CE [4] Not a separate work. Part of Mahabharata ...
The Spitzer Manuscript is the oldest surviving philosophical manuscript in Sanskrit, [2] [3] and possibly the oldest discovered Sanskritic manuscript of any type related to Buddhism and Hinduism. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ note 1 ] The manuscript was found in 1906 in the form of a pile of more than 1,000 palm leaf fragments in the Ming-oi, Kizil Caves ...
Mahabharata Manuscript illustration of the Battle of Kurukshetra Information Religion Hinduism Author Vyasa Language Sanskrit Period Principally compiled in 3rd century BCE–4th century CE Chapters 18 Parvas Verses 200,000 Full text Mahabharata at Sanskrit Wikisource Mahabharata at English Wikisource Part of a series on Hindu scriptures and texts Shruti Smriti List Vedas Rigveda Samaveda ...
Four illustrated Mughal manuscripts are known, one complete, made between 1584 and 1586, and now in Jaipur, with 176 paintings of which 147 were reproduced in 1884 by Thomas Holbein Hendley. The final five parts (of 18) from another, made between 1598 and 1599 and split up in 1921, form British Library, MS Or. 12076 and has other pages spread ...
The most celebrated commentary of the Mahabharata by Neelakantha Chaturdhara, the Bharata Bhava Deepa also covers the Harivamsa. According to a traditional version of the Mahabharata, the Harivamsa is divided into two parvas (books) and 12,000 verses. [2] These are included with the eighteen parvas of the Mahabharata. [3]
The total number of original verses depend on which Sanskrit source is used, and these do not equal the totalnumber of translated verses in each chapter, in both Ganguli and Dutt translations. Mahabharata , like many ancient Sanskrit texts, was transmitted across generations verbally, a practice that was a source of corruption of its text ...
The above is a photo, or illustration purposes, of a page of an 18th-century manuscript that is archived and preserved at the University of Pennsylvania. Penn Library holds the largest number of South Asian manuscripts in North America. The photo above is of a 2D pages of a manuscript that was published long before 1920.