Electronic Indic Manuscripts
A number of manuscripts from the collection are now available in electronic format at this site. We are always adding new items from the collection to this site, so check here regularly.
      If you know a manuscript held here (see Poleman's Census) and interested in it, please send us a request. We may be able to add the particular item ahead of others.
      Manuscripts are classified according to the Census of Poleman below. For each entry there is a title, Poleman No. and UPENN No.
      Entries whose titles are in italic are planned to be added to this electronic collection.
      Each manuscript has its own descriptive page. Each "page" is a folio image. Images of manuscript are scanned with 75dpi resolution unless otherwise noted. Therefore, if the screen is set to 75dpi, then you should see a manuscript in its original size.

Note that this resolution may not be particularly useful for serious study of manuscripts. In addition to this, images are stored in JPEG format (in 75% quality) wherein the color information of color in each pixel is not preserved. This format was chosen because major web browsers do not support graphic formats other than gif and jpeg, and without using JPEG, a scanned image would be 7 times the JPEG size thus making the image almost unusable in the net environment.

Please contact Pushkar Sohoni, South Asia Studies Librarian, if you would like to consult any of the manuscripts in the collection.