Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Research center in Shivajinagar, Pune, India

The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute occupies two grey stone buildings on Law College Road, one single-storey with a pale green entrance porch whose columns carry white and green stripes and pink and green lotus bases, the other two-storey with pointed crenellations and a tiled porch roof. Inside are over 125,000 books and 29,510 manuscripts.

The institute was founded on 6 July 1917 and named after Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar (1837–1925). On 1 April 1918 Lord Willingdon, governor of the Bombay Presidency and first president of BORI, transferred the government's manuscript collection, begun in 1866, from Deccan College to the new institute. A critical edition of the Mahabharata, started on 1 April 1919, was completed in 19 volumes and announced on 22 September 1966 by President Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan.

The institute is named after Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar (1837–1925), a scholar credited with shaping Indology in India. Its journal, the Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, appears four times a year. Since 2022 the BharatVidya platform has offered online courses on the Mahabharata, Vedic texts and Indian philosophy, with certificates issued jointly by the institute.

The institute is located on Law College Road and welcomes visitors interested in Eastern studies and scholarly research. It is advisable to check beforehand what areas are open for viewing since some collections require limited access for preservation reasons.

The UNESCO Memory of the World listing, granted in 2007, covers the Rigveda manuscripts held here, not the whole collection. The oldest item in the institute is a palm-leaf manuscript of the Upamitibhavaprapañcakathā dated 906 CE; a paper manuscript of the Cikitsāsārasangraha from 1320 CE is also among the prized holdings.