At the University of Minho library in Braga, Portugal, there. are two Old Konkani Manuscripts in Roman script, codex 771 and codex 772, which contain the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and some minor stories. The longest work among these is the Mahabharata. Although the title of this work does not appear at the very beginning, it is referred to as Bharata in several places. The Bharata was narrated by Konkani Speakers to Portuguese missionaries in Goa around 1600 and it was taken down by them in the Roman script. The Roman transcription is remarkably systematic in these works. We do not know when and how these works reached Braga, Portugal.

The Old Konkani Bharata is being published in three volumes: Volume I: Introduction. Volume II: Text. Volume II: Glossary. Here is Volume I of this work which contains introductory .Essays on the work in English and Karnataka Saraswat Konkani in Kannada script. A Goan edition is also being published by Asmitai Pratishthan, Margao, in which the Konkani dialect used is the Goan standard dialect in Nagari script.