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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Project / Collection Medieval Sanskrit Manuscripts scattered in Newar Settlements

181. EAP1023/17/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/17/8
Title:
रामायण उत्तरखण्ड
Scope & Content:
Ramayana [Rāmāyaṇa] is a great epic of the Hindus that elaborates the deeds of Rama an incarnation of Vishnu. He secured victory over evil. This manuscript is an abridged version of latter part of thestory detailing the story of Rama banishing Sita from Ayodhya and birth of their sons. It als...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
11 TIFF images

182. EAP1023/17/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/17/9
Title:
वरपञ्जर रक्षाबन्धन स्तोत्र
Scope & Content:
This is a Hindu Stora dedicated to the praise of Lakshmi Nrishimha. Custodial history: Family inheritance. Extent and format of original material: Collection Level 17, Series Level: 16 files, File Level: 9 Vol of 3 folios, Item Level: Paper folios 3. Owner(s) of original material: Nuchhe Maya...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
3 TIFF images

183. EAP1023/17/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/17/10
Title:
गृहसुत्र
Scope & Content:
Grihya Sutra is a manual detailing the domestic religious ceremonies performed by both Hindu male and female householders over the fire. The Sutras, together with the Shrauta Sutras, which deal with the grand Vedic sacrifices, and the Dharma Sutras, which deal with rules of conduct, make up the ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
21 TIFF images

184. EAP1023/17/11

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/17/11
Title:
सिद्धान्तलेसकनिकाख्या
Scope & Content:
This is a text that contains different views on monastic school of Shankara on some important points of Vedanta. Custodial history: Family inheritance. Extent and format of original material: Collection Level 17, Series Level: 16 files, File Level: 11 Vol of 20 folios, Item Level: Paper folios...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
21 TIFF images

185. EAP1023/17/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/17/12
Title:
वर्गचक्र
Scope & Content:
This is an Indian astrological text. refers to the division of a zodiacal sign (rāśi) into parts. Each such fractional part of a sign called aṃśa has a source of influence associated with it. Those sources of influence come to be associated with collections of regions around the zodiac. There ar...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
15 TIFF images

186. EAP1023/17/13

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/17/13
Title:
वेदान्त परिभाषा
Scope & Content:
Vedanta-Paribhasha is an epistemological work on Advaita Vedanta It is authored by Varadarajaaraja Dikshita. The author is believed to have lived in the seventeenth century. In this work he has adopted the method and phraseology of Navya-Nyaya, introduced by Gangesa Upadhyaya in the fourteenth c...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
8 TIFF images

187. EAP1023/17/14

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/17/14
Title:
पञ्चबिधा मात्रिका न्यास
Scope & Content:
Matrika-nyasais the installation of the Divine Mothers.Tantric works like Tantrarāja and Kulacūḍāmaṇi discuss the worship of Matrikas as Shaktis or lGarland of letters . A process of this worship is described in Devi Gita,a part of Devi Bhagavata Purana [Bhāgavatapurāṇa]. It involves installa...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
6 TIFF images

188. EAP1023/17/15

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/17/15
Title:
हितोपदेश
Scope & Content:
Hitopadesha, lit. Beneficial Advice, is a Sanskrit text consisting of fables with both animal and human characters. It incorporates maxims, wisdom and advice on political affairs in simple, elegant language. It has been widely translated. The oldest manuscript found in Nepal is dated 14th centur...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
48 TIFF images

189. EAP1023/17/16

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/17/16
Title:
सामवेद
Scope & Content:
Samaveda [Sāmaveda] is one of the four Vedas in Hinduism. It is the Veda of melodies and chants. It is an ancient Vedic Sanskrit text, and part of the scriptures of Hinduism. It is a liturgical text which consists of 1,549 verses. All but 75 verses have been taken from the Rigveda [Rgveda]. Thr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
6 TIFF images

190. EAP1023/18

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/18
Title:
Shobha Manandhar Collection
Scope & Content:
This is one of 28 collections of rare medieval manuscripts digitised by the EAP1023 project team in Newār settlements in Rural Kathmandu and hill areas of Nepal. This collection contain 28 manuscripts digitised from a private collection in Tokha, Nepal. The owner of the material is Shobha Manand...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Kiranti and Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century-20th century
Extent:
1508 TIFF images