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Kamrup Sanskrit Sanjivani Sabha is a research and preservation institution formed in 1913's, [1] which deals primarily in Sanskrit language topics. [2] It is located in Nalbari in India, and throughout involved in preservation of rare Sanskrit manuscripts. The manuscript library of this institute contains more than thousand Sanskrit manuscripts ...
Spitzer Manuscript folio 383 fragment. This Buddhist Sanskrit text was written on both sides of the palm leaf (recto and verso). [1] The Spitzer Manuscript is the oldest surviving philosophical manuscript in Buddhist hybrid Sanskrit, [2] [3] and possibly the oldest discovered Buddhist Sanskrit manuscript of any type related to Buddhism.
Rigveda manuscript page, Mandala 1, Hymn 1 (Sukta 1), lines 1.1.1 to 1.1.9 (Sanskrit, Devanagari script) The Rigveda hymns were composed and preserved by oral tradition . They were memorized and verbally transmitted with "unparalleled fidelity" across generations for many centuries.
While a large number of these works only survive in Tibetan and Chinese translations, many key Buddhist Sanskrit works do survive in manuscript form and are held in numerous modern collections. [124] Sanskrit was the main scholastic language of the Indian Buddhist philosophers in the Vaibhasika, Sautrantika, Madhyamaka and Yogacara schools. [125]
The manuscript is now preserved as MS Add.1049.1 at the Cambridge University LIbrary. The lowest leaf in the photo above is notable for narrating the Sanskrit alphabet list twice (starting in second line, right side after the hole; then repeating in mid-third line, note the shapes and compare with early Gupta, Devanagari).
The Sārasvati Bhavan library is the richest collection of Sanskrit manuscripts in India. Dr. Ganganath Jha suggested and recommended the publication of the rare manuscripts collected in this library. [4] These manuscripts were written on palm leaves, clothes, birch, wooden plates and old paper.
The following is a chronological survey of prominent manuscript witnesses and editions of the Sanskrit Aṣṭasāhasrikā text: c. 184 BCE to 46 BCE — Kharoṣṭhī manuscript from the Split Collection. This is in the Gāndhārī language and was composed in Gandhāra. [3] c. 140 CE — Kharoṣṭhī manuscript from the Bajaur Collection ...
One of the oldest surviving palm leaf manuscripts of a complete treatise is a Sanskrit Shaivism text from the 9th century, discovered in Nepal, and now preserved at the Cambridge University Library. [3] The Spitzer Manuscript is a collection of palm leaf fragments found in Kizil Caves, China. They are dated to about the 2nd century CE and ...