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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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/11
Title:: തപതീസംവരണവിവരണം
Scope & Content:: One of the very few bundles found in Thrissur containing a commentary on a classical work of Sanskrit theatre, Kulaśekhara's Tapatīsaṃvaraṇa. The play itself is popular in the typically Keralese Kūṭiyattam theatre, which may be one of the reasons why a Sanskrit commentary on that work is found i...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 134 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/12
Title:: കൈവല്യദീപികാ
Scope & Content:: A famous 13th-century Sanskrit commentary on Bopadeva's Muktāphala, which is itself a theological treatise in the form of a compilation of verses from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. One of the rare Vaiṣṇava works found in the Thrissur collection. Custodial history: Former ownership is not known. Extent...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 132 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/13
Title:: നാരായണോപനിഷത് വിവരണം
Scope & Content:: A very rare copy of an unpublished Advaita commentary on the Nārāyaṇopaniṣad, by the famous 12-th century thinker Vijñānātman (see Thangaswami 1980: 397). The title of the work is given in the manuscript as Nārāyaṇākhyapraśna[/prajñā°]yājñikyupaniṣad. The text is followed by a portion of text in...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 111 TIFF images

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