Āśā Saphūkuthi (Āśā Archives)

Also known as the Āśā Archives, this is a collection of Buddhist and Hindu manuscripts from one of the largest public archives held by a non-profit, community-based organization in Nepal. The collection includes pothi-style palm-leaf and paper manuscripts, accordion books, ritual handbooks, and codices containing a variety of important texts on Hinduism and Buddhism, poetics, astronomy, astrology, and medicine, written in Sanskrit, Newari, Nepali, and a mix of these languages. The bulk of the Āśā Archives' early collection (over 7,000 manuscripts) dates to the 15th–19th centuries. HMML's partnership currently focuses on digitizing the manuscripts of the 'new collection,' items dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries.