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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/1
Title:: ശബരഭാഷ്യം
Scope & Content:: An ancient work on Mīmāṃsā (Vedic hermeneutics). The bundle contains 5 books (adhyāyas) of Śabarasvāmin's (presumably) 5th-century commentary on the Mīmāṃsāsūtras, namely books 2,3,5,7 and a fragment of book 4. The manuscript thus contains approximately half of the work. The foliation is organis...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 369 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/2
Title:: ശിവജ്ഞാനദീപികാ
Scope & Content:: One of the rare works found in Thrissur belonging to the Southern Tantricschool of Śaivasiddhānta, predominantly active in Tamil Nadu. The work, which was presumably written in the second millennium, has not received much attention yet, and the date of its composition is not known. The bundle co...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 142 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/3
Title:: ഭാഷാശാസ്ത്ര സംബന്ധിയായ കൃതികളുടേ ഗ്രന്ഥം
Scope & Content:: A bundle containing two classical Sanskrit works on language. This copy of the works was hitherto unknown, and has not been used by any editors of the text. The bundle is generally very damaged. Custodial history: Former ownership is not known. Extent and format of original material: 85 leaves...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 182 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/4
Title:: മനനാഖ്യപ്രകരണം or വാസുദേവമനനം
Scope & Content:: A little-known independent treatise on Advaita-Vedānta in 12 chapters (varṇakas), of uncertain date but no doubt belonging to the second millennium (see Thangaswami 1980: 437-438). The work is essentially meant as an introduction to the study of the Yogavāsiṣṭha (K. Narayanaswami Aiyar & ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 175 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/5
Title:: വേദാന്ത കൃതികളുടേ ഗ്രന്ഥം
Scope & Content:: Bundle comprising an important Vedāntic text, followed by invocations. The bundle starts with one stray leaf, with a fragment of Śaṅkara's Brahmasūtrabhāṣya. Custodial history: Former ownership is not known. Extent and format of original material: 100 leaves. Physical characteristics: Size: W...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 213 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/6
Title:: ന്യായദീപികാ
Scope & Content:: The only complete copy surviving of this important 11th-century work on Advaita philosophy of language. This work has recently been published (David 2020). Custodial history: Former ownership is not known. Extent and format of original material: 98 leaves. Physical characteristics: Size: W 5....
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 202 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/7
Title:: ജൈമിനീയന്യായമാലാവിസ്താരം
Scope & Content:: A standard work on Mīmāṃsā, dated back to the 14th century; this manuscript testifies, among others, for a sustained study of Mīmāṃsā (Vedic ritual exegesis) in Thrissur in the last centuries. The work is transmitted in a very fragmentary way. Custodial history: Former ownership is not known. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 33 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/8
Title:: പഞ്ചപാദികാവിവരണം
Scope & Content:: A hitherto unknown complete copy of the fundamental work of the "Vivaraṇa" school of Advaita Vedānta, whose prominence in Thrissur is clearly visible from the collection. Custodial history: Former ownership is not known. Extent and format of original material: 166 leaves. Physical characteris...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 340 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/9
Title:: പ്രമാണരത്നമാലാനിബന്ധനം
Scope & Content:: A hitherto unknown copy of Anubhūtisvarūpa's standard commentary on the Pramāṇaratnamālā of Ānandabodha (11th century), probably dating back to the 13th century. The work, which is still unpublished, is sometimes known under the name °nibandha. See Thangaswami 1980: 245. Custodial history: Form...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 101 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/10
Title:: ദാർശനിക സംബന്ധിയായ കൃതികളുടെ ഗ്രന്ഥം
Scope & Content:: This bundle, which presumably was used for teaching purposes, contains a fragment of Prakāśātman's classical commentary on the Pañcapādikā, called Vivaraṇa, and a collection of fragments of works of Mīmāṃsā on the topic of inference, only some of which could be identified. Custodial history: Fo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 203 TIFF images

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