Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Subject: Folklore - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/8/69/8
Title:
Scope & Content:: Swayambhu, the Self-Created or Self-Existent, is one of the most venerated and sacred Buddhist sites. Set on a hillock, west of Kathmandu City, it is reputedly the oldest settlement in the Kathmandu valley surrounded by several smaller shrines and temples. According to legend, Kathmandu Valley w...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/8/69/9
Title:
Scope & Content:: Swayambhu, the Self-Created or Self-Existent, is one of the most venerated and sacred Buddhist sites. Set on a hillock, west of Kathmandu City, it is reputedly the oldest settlement in the Kathmandu valley surrounded by several smaller shrines and temples. According to legend, Kathmandu Valley w...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP848/1
Title:: The collection preserved at Grishashvili Library Museum
Scope & Content:: The collection contains the following: private archive of Ioseb Grishashvili, rare and unique bibliographic editions, urban folklore, playbills, handwritten books, newspapers etc. The collections are displayed in showrooms and stored in repositories. The Georgian writer and scientist – Ioseb Gr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Abkhazian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Not applicable, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian
Date Range:: 1712-1999
Extent:: 21540 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP886/1
Title:: रघुनाथ मन्दिर पुस्तकालय, जम्मू
Scope & Content:: Paper Manuscripts collected under the auspices of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. Arrangement: First catalogued by the famous Colonial Indologist and Sanskritphile Sir Auriel Stein. The Original Collection that Stein got to examine was furthur expanded over the years. After Stein's First Cat...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Hindi and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 17th century-19th century
Extent:: 15543 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP886/1/2
Title:: शतपथ ब्राह्मणम् एवम् संहिता ब्राह्मणम्
Scope & Content:: Damaged Copy of The Shatapatha Brahmana a prose text describing Vedic rituals, history and mythology associated with the Sukla Yajurveda. The text describes in great detail the preparation of altars, ceremonial objects, ritual recitations, and the Soma libation, along with the symbolic attribute...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 351 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/3
Title:: Natham-Kovilpatti Siva Kailasanatha temple
Scope & Content:: The Siva as well as the Goddess temple ceilings has the painted murals. The paintings are in extinct condition and peeling off due to changing weather conditions. The murals show the set of scenes from the epic ‘Kumarasambhava’. On the inner ceilings there are some portrait paintings of men and...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil and Telugu
Date Range:: 1500-1699
Extent:: 102 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/3/3
Title:: Amman temple ceiling
Scope & Content:: The events bin about the marriage of Lord Siva to Uma and the birth of Skanda. Kumarasambhava basically talks about the birth of Kumara (Kartikeya), the son of Siva and Parvati. Kumarasambhava literally means "Birth of Kumara". This epic of seventeen cantos entails 'Sringara Rasa', the rasa of l...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil and Telugu
Date Range:: 1500-1699
Extent:: 45 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/4
Title:: Pattisvaram Siva Dhenupurisvara and Amman Gnanabigai temple
Scope & Content:: It is an unique and move away from the legendary story according to which Lord Muruga was born out of a flame from Lord Siva’s third eye and it’s unique and not seen in any other art work in Tamil Nadu. The figures shown are tall and very big in size.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1500-1700
Extent:: 223 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/5
Title:: Panchanadisvara Temple, Tiruvaiyaru
Scope & Content:: Tiruvaiyaru Panchanadisvara also called as Iyarisvara, a Siva temple located 12 kms from the north of Tanjavur. Tiruvaiyaru in Tamil means the 'Holy Land of Five Rivers'. The temple in its current form and structure dates back to the Pallava period with further improvements and renovation during...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1600-1699
Extent:: 113 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/6
Title:: Tiruvannamalai Siva Arunachaleswara temple
Scope & Content:: The Kalyana Mandapa (Marriage Hall) of Siva temples' ceilings and walls have the painted murals. The paintings are in extinct condition and peeling off due to changing weather conditions. It is unfortunate a considerable portion of the Frescos had been already removed bacause of sand blasting. Th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1500-1699
Extent:: 395 TIFF images

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