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461. EAP790/17/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/17/1
Title:
Svasthani Vrata Katha
Scope & Content:
This is a Hindu religious text that discuss about the female deity Sri Svasthani. It discusses about Saivite and Vaisnavite deities. The practice of the Vrata is still lively in Nepal. People observe a month long vrata practice and listenstory recitation for the period. This story is recited in ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Newari
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
298 TIFF images

462. EAP790/17/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/17/2
Title:
Svasthani Vrata Katha
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the fragment of Svasthani Vrata Katha. Most of the pages are lost. It is in sanskrit and Pracalit Newari. Its condition is good. Its size is 35X15.5 Extent: Folios: 16
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Newari
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
33 TIFF images

463. 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

464. EAP790/18/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/18/2
Title:
Puja Vidhi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a ritual text called Puja Vidhi. It is in Newari language written with Devanagari script. This paper manuscript is partly damaged. Its size is 27.5X13 CMs. Extent: Folios: 6
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Newari
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
13 TIFF images

465. EAP790/19

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/19
Title:
Ratna Man Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:
This collection is possed by a Buddhist Newar in Kathmandu who has ancestral ties with Buddhists of Palpa and some other hilly townships. Texts in this collection are mainly ritual texts, Stotra, Sutra and Purana. Newar Buddhists still use those kinds of texts. Extent: 7 files
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
361 TIFF images

466. EAP790/19/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/19/1
Title:
Vidhi
Scope & Content:
This is a ritual text. It is a Buddhist manuscript in Sanskrit and Newari languages and Pracalit Newari script. It is partly damaged. Its folio size is 16.5X9 CMs. Extent: Folios: 18
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Newari and Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
21 TIFF images

467. EAP790/19/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/19/2
Title:
Stotra Samgraha
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the collection of Buddhist Stotras. They are in sanskrit and Devanagari scripts. Its material is paper which is damaged. Its size is 12X16 CMs. Extent: Folios: 29
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Newari and Sanskrit
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
35 TIFF images

468. EAP790/20

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/20
Title:
Vikram Subedi Collection
Scope & Content:
The present owner inherited this manuscript from his father. This manuscript is a Samhita derived from the Yajurveda. Every manuscripts may have their own stories of creation, use and survival. This manuscript has survived near end at a paper recycling plant. In the mound of paper rubbles collec...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
204 TIFF images

469. 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

470. EAP945/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP945/1
Title:
Mr Upendra Bhakta Subedi's Collection of Texts on Hindu Rites and Rituals
Scope & Content:
The material is the collection of Mr Upendra Bhakta Subedi, alias Govinda Baje, 81, a descendant of an illustrious family of Rajopadhyaya Brahmins from the heart of Kathmandu Valley. The collections represent medieval texts on Shaiva Tantric rites and rituals that are distinctly pre‐modern and p...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Hindi, Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1690-1982
Extent:
154 files containing 7,266 TIFF images

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