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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP171/1
Title:: Feasibility survey of documenting selected 18th-20th century written heritage from Nepal
Scope & Content:: This collection was uncatalogued and has no descriptive data to identify the manuscripts with their titles or contents.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali
Date Range:: 18th century-20th century
Extent:: 472 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP272/1
Title:: Historic Ephemera and Manuscripts from Nepal 1700s-1960s
Scope & Content:: Extent of original: 215 Manuscripts and 1400 Ephemera. Medium of original: Ephemera printed on papers or silk cloths and manuscripts written in traditional as well as modern paper of variable size. Description: The ephemera range from religious, social, cultural, to personal artifacts, but mostly...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Hindi, Nepali, Newari, Sanskrit, and Tibetan
Date Range:: 18th century-1960s
Extent:: 2 series with 1615 files and 9069 images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP760/1
Title:: The Tīrthalāl Naghabhanī Archive (TLA)
Scope & Content:: This collection contains the following 6 series: EAP760/1/1: Candannāth Papers, 1867-1918 EAP760/1/2: Tīrthalāl Collection (TLC) [The Family and the Regime], 1763-1968 EAP760/1/3: Financial Transactions, 1860-1983 EAP760/1/4: Photographs, 1989-1996 EAP760/1/5: Family Collection (TLF), 1125-1996 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Hindi, Maithili, Nepali, Newari, Newari, Classical, Not applicable, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1125-2006
Extent:: 11039 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/1
Title:: Gyankar Vajracharya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection of manuscripts belongs to Mr. Gyankar Vajracharya who lives in Bhaktapur. He is a traditional Newari painter by profession. He is very much aware on significance of tangible heritages such as manuscripts. His entire collection is developed by himself. This collection has Buddhist...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th century-20th century
Extent:: 6825 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/2
Title:: Suprasanna Vajracharya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection belongs to a son of an eminent Pandit from Patan. The Pandit was well known ritual performer and a scholar of Buddhism. His son inherited those manuscripts after his demise. These are Buddhist manuscripts mainly dealing with Sutra, Stotra, Rituals, Puja Vidhi, Tantra, Tantric son...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th century-19th century
Extent:: 1096 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/3
Title:: Dev Vajra Vajracharya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection is inherited from ancestors of several generations. The present owner is not much aware of the significance of manuscripts in this collection. This the present owner belonged to a Buddhist family, and also the family of a ritual performing Vajracharya priest, its manuscripts most...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th century-20th century
Extent:: 855 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/4
Title:: Prabhakar Vajracharya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection is another important collection in Bhaktapur. It mostly has Hindu texts and a few are Buddhist. In addition, it also has historical, Ayurvedic and other non religious manuscripts in this collection. The present owner inherited all the texts from his father. It is not properly car...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th century-20th century
Extent:: 1475 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/5
Title:: Dharma Raj Vajracharya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collector is very much enthusiast to collect manuscripts. This collection has considerable number of manuscripts among the private collections. Larger part of this collection is from family inheritance. At the same time, the collector also added some manuscripts. and personal collection. It...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 16th century-19th century
Extent:: 2497 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/6
Title:: Chiba Guthi Collection
Scope & Content:: Newar people have a very well organised cultural behaviour. Their cultural lives has been well structured and institutionalised. Several social organisation are there in their cultural realm. Guthi or literally endowment is one among many such social and religious organisations. Each Guthi has i...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 171 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/7
Title:: Smriti Shrestha Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection has a very interesting story. It was recovered by a student of Buddhism who after the devastating earthquake of 2015 in Nepal made survey of Buddhist Viharas in Thimi, a small medieval Newar town in Bhaktapur district. In the mound of debris of an abandoned Vihara, she saw some p...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 17th century-19th century
Extent:: 72 TIFF images

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