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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Language Sanskrit Subject Politics

1. EAP790/1

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

2. EAP790/1/145

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/1/145
Title:
Buddhi Chanakya
Scope & Content:
It is a book of Hindu polity. The complete title is Buddhi Chanakya Sara Samgraha authored by the famous Chanakya of fourth century BCE. Chanakya was an Indian teacher, philosopher, economist, jurist and royal advisor. He is traditionally identified as Kauṭilya or Vishnugupta, who authored the a...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali and Sanskrit
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
82 TIFF images

3. EAP790/16

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/16
Title:
Nirmala KC Collection
Scope & Content:
This collection was recovered in Bhaktapur. She made this collection by herself. It has Tantric texts both Buddhist and Hindu Tantras. It also has a text on Hindu polity. Extent: 5 files
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
63 TIFF images

4. EAP790/18

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/18
Title:
Saundryavati Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:
This collection belongs to a Buddhist family migrated during the early modern period from Kathmandu to Tansen in Palpa. A small Buddhist Newar community exist in this town. They did every effort to keep alive Newar Buddhist culture out of core Newar civilization. Therefore, they still possess Bu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century-20th century
Extent:
223 TIFF images

5. EAP790/18/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/18/1
Title:
Chanakya sara Samgraha
Scope & Content:
The subject of this manuscript is polity. This is the compilation of ideas of the famous ancient Indian thinker and political scientist Chanakya. The main text is in Sanskrit followed by interpretation in Nepali. Its script is Devanagari. This is in good condition. Folios after 55 are missing. I...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali and Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
58 TIFF images

6. EAP790/21

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/21
Title:
Amrit Ratna Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:
This is one of the significant manuscripts in private possession. Manuscripts in this collections mostly derived from Hinduism. It also has very old Palm leaves manuscripts.It has different types of manuscripts covering wide variety of themes. Extent: 123 files
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century-20th century
Extent:
7197 TIFF images

7. EAP790/21/86

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/21/86
Title:
Gayatri Puja Paddhati-Vashistha Samhita
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two texts Gayatri Puja and Vasistha Samhita. Gayatri is cregarded as the mother of the Vedas and culmination of Goddesses Parvati, Sarasvati and Lakshmi. Gayatri Mantra is the root mantra of Hinduism. The other book Vasistha Samhita is a book on the Vedic system of elect...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
46 TIFF images

8. EAP1031/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1031/4
Title:
Dr Rajarshi Ghose Collection
Scope & Content:
This collection belongs to Dr. Rajarshi Ghose (Kolkata, India). It is a private collection with rare books, chapbooks, pamphlets, and periodicals in Urdu, Nepali, Bangla, Sanskrit, Farsi, Hindi, Rajasthani and Bhojpuri. Dr. Rajarshi Ghose is an Assistant Professor in History at the Centre for St...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, Bhojpuri, English, Hindi, Nepali, Persian, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu
Date Range:
1800-1999
Extent:
42852 tiff images