Published on 17 March 2023
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Two digitized Nepalese manuscripts now available online !

First leaves of the Bṛhatkathā ślokasaṃgraha or " Collection in verse of the Great History ", MS-SL-46

Two manuscripts from Nepal held by the Library of Indian and Central Asian Studies have been digitized and can now be viewed online on Salamandre, the Collège de France's digital library.

The first is a collection of Indian tales in Sanskrit, the Bṛhatkathā ślokasaṃgraha or " Collection in verse of the Great Story " by Budhasvāmin.A rare testimony to this partly lost text, this manuscript is dated to the 12th century and was used in the critical edition of the text by Félix Lacôte in 1908-1929.
The second manuscript, dated to the 11th century, is a collection of eight Hindu religious texts, fundamental to knowledge of ancient Shivaism. It is called the Śivadharma corpus.