Resources

The National Mission for Manuscripts’ national database, formerly called Kṛtisampadā; government sources describe more than two million records.

IGNCA’s union Catalogue of Catalogues: more than 1,000 published and unpublished manuscript catalogues; a data export is still being sought.

Organisation-wise inventory and downloadable descriptive PDFs for manuscript microfilms from repositories across India.

Open database and map of repositories outside India that hold Indic manuscripts, developed by the India International Centre and Sanskrit Research Institute.

Title lists and descriptions of manuscripts microfilmed in Nepal by the Nepal–German projects.

A union catalogue for locating printed manuscript catalogues and records contributed by member libraries.

The Bodleian Libraries’ discovery catalogue, including printed catalogues and manuscript finding aids.

Descriptions of the British Library’s archives and manuscripts, including the India Office collections.

The catalogue of the German National Library; useful for VOHD volumes and German manuscript catalogues.

The French academic union catalogue; useful for French manuscript catalogues and institutional series.

A shared archive of scanned printed catalogues of Indian manuscripts, arranged by the numbers of Biswas (1998), with a folder of catalogues Biswas does not list.

The volumes of the University of Madras register of Sanskrit works and authors, readable page by page.

The Bodleian’s guide to its catalogues of Sanskrit manuscripts and to finding aids elsewhere.

Scans of many nineteenth- and twentieth-century catalogues; search by the catalogue’s title or compiler.

A digitised copy of A. Cabaton’s short catalogue of the Sanskrit and Pali manuscripts in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Images of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford.

Descriptions of manuscripts microfilmed in Nepal, with access to the filmed collections.

A large volunteer archive of scanned manuscripts and rare books from Indian collections.

The Institute’s collection of palm-leaf and paper manuscripts, mostly Śaiva texts from South India.

Scans of the manuscripts in the Lalchand Research Library.

Digitised archives from around the world, including many manuscript collections in South Asia.

The BnF’s digital library, which includes many digitised Indic manuscripts.

Search results for Sanskrit works, among them manuscripts, in the Wellcome Collection, London.

Images of the Institute’s manuscripts in its digital collections.

The Hamburg library’s digitised holdings, including its Indian manuscripts.

Digitised Sanskrit and Nepalese manuscripts in Cambridge University Library.

Catalogue guide and digital access for Berlin’s South Asian manuscript collections and the VOHD series.

Scans of Jain manuscript catalogues, bhandar lists, editions and secondary works.

Official portal with digitised descriptive, alphabetical and triennial catalogues from the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Chennai.

Independent research interface to 100,046 records formerly exposed by the L. D. Institute website; provenance and unofficial status are stated on the mirror.

A browser-based search over the SARIT and GRETIL TEI corpora, with a reader and links to the source XML.

The Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages, with downloadable machine-readable texts.

Searchable Sanskrit e-texts and digitised manuscript collections, especially Śaiva, Śākta, Tantric and Vedic materials.