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1571. EAP683/1/1/55

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP683/1/1/55
Title:
Padāṅkadūtakāvya
Scope & Content:
Poem is written from the perspective of a gopī (cowherdess) who longs to be with Kṛṣṇa and encounters his footprint (padāṅka) which she treats as the messenger (dūta) of the god who will send her love and emotion to him. Cotton and wood pulp paper; fair condition, unbound. 8 x 44 cm; 6 folios, wi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
13 Tiff images

1572. EAP683/1/1/56

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP683/1/1/56
Title:
Gopālacarita
Scope & Content:
Selections of stories about the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa during his early life as a child and teenager focusing especially on his playful nature (līlā); lacks a beginning. Cotton and wood pulp paper; poor condition, unbound. 9 x 38 cm; 11 folios; newspaper wrapper. Notes and numbers written in a modern ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
23 Tiff images

1573. EAP683/1/1/57

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP683/1/1/57
Title:
Kāvyādarśa
Scope & Content:
Work on Sanskrit poetics. Image for folio 15 verso is missing. Palm leaf; fair condition, unbound. 7 x 35 cm; 49 folios; cotton wrapper and notes. Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 1603; Kāvya: 78. Owner of original material: Yutānanda Deva is named as the recipient of...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
99 Tiff images

1574. EAP683/1/1/58

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP683/1/1/58
Title:
Vidagdhamukhamaṇḍaṇa
Scope & Content:
A Kind of Sanskrit poem (kāvya), in which the verses (ślokas) are not interrelated, and each one has two meanings, like a kind of poetic riddle. Verses explore themes from the Mahābhārata and other mythology. Cotton and wood pulp paper; fair condition, unbound. 8 x 29 cm; 12 folios (f. 14-25); co...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
26 Tiff images.

1575. EAP683/1/1/59

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP683/1/1/59
Title:
Vidagdhamukhamaṇḍaṇa
Scope & Content:
A Kind of Sanskrit poem (kāvya), in which the verses (ślokas) are not interrelated, and each one has two meanings, like a kind of poetic riddle. Verses explore themes from the Mahābhārata and other mythology. Cotton and wood pulp paper; moderate condition, unbound. 8 x 37 cm; 7 folios; cotton wra...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
15 Tiff images

1576. EAP683/1/1/60

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP683/1/1/60
Title:
Hitopadeśa
Scope & Content:
Collection of animal stories written for children, primarily princes, to impart lessons of good rulership; there are two additional partial texts at the end of the manuscript, which were part of the family library that this manuscript was orginally part of. Cotton and wood pulp paper; terrible co...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
176 Tiff images

1577. EAP683/1/1/61

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP683/1/1/61
Title:
Gotramālikā
Scope & Content:
Collection of family names and lineages, especially for local Bangladesh Brahmans who want to connect themselves to established lineages from the mytho-historical past. Such lineages give local Brahmans the authority to perform rituals, marriages, funerals, and the like. Mentions, for example, th...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
11 Tiff images

1578. EAP683/1/1/62

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP683/1/1/62
Title:
Vivāhatatva [alternate title - Udvāhakarmmaṇastatva] [1849]
Scope & Content:
There is a chart and diagram (yantra) of a lineage of an unknown patron from his or her father's and mother's side (f. 1r-1v). The text is about the systems and rituals of marriage. Describes, to some extend the seriousness and sensitivities, among Bengali Hindus, towards caste issues in marriage...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
1849
Extent:
67 Tiff images

1579. EAP683/1/1/63

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP683/1/1/63
Title:
Cāṇakyaśloka [1874]
Scope & Content:
Collection of sayings or maxims for moral and spiritual guidance in daily life. Dated in code as śāke vedāṃka śailendu, which likely means: veda (4), aṃka (9), śaila (7) and indu (1) in the year of śaka 1794 (1874 A.D.) (f. 11v). Cotton and wood pulp paper; poor condition, unbound. 6 x 29 cm; 9 ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
1874
Extent:
20 Tiff images

1580. EAP683/1/1/64

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP683/1/1/64
Title:
Vyākaraṇagrantha
Scope & Content:
Sanskrit grammar. Cotton and wood pulp paper; moderate condition, unbound. 8 x 37 cm; 83 folios with two wooden covers. Drawing of what looks to be a leopard or a leopard with a human face along with male genitalia on the first folio (f. 1r). Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: Kr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
170 Tiff images

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