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Place Vārānasi, India Level [40] File

11. EAP921/4/1/16

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP921/4/1/16
Title:
কাশী
Scope & Content:
A short account on Kashi or Benares [Vārānasi] as a sacred place. From history to geographical description, every part is well written or more specific well discussed. The writer tried to impose a contrast view to explore this holy religious city of India. Custodial history: With the immense ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali
Date Range:
1895
Extent:
47 TIFF images

12. EAP921/4/1/20

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP921/4/1/20
Title:
কাশী
Scope & Content:
Kashikhanda', published and translated in Bengali, actually a part of Skandapurana [Skandapurāṇa]. The various chapters were tried to establish the greatness and excellenceies of Kashi or Beneres as the most sacred Pilgrimage to Hindu community. Custodial history: With the immense contributio...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali
Date Range:
1895
Extent:
161 TIFF images

13. EAP921/5/2/149

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP921/5/2/149
Title:
{একাধিক শিরোনাম- গয়া পদ্ধতি, বেনারস পদ্ধতি}
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of a number of paddhati texts and appears to have been used as a manual for sraddha rituals. It is a palm leaf manuscript.; Complete/ Incomplete: Incomplete; Place of composition: Not Known; Date of copying: Not Known. Custodial history: Shyamal Bera, M.A., Ph.D....
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
1758
Extent:
135 TIFF images

14. EAP921/6/1/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP921/6/1/12
Title:
নীতি-রত্নমালা
Scope & Content:
Religious teachings of Srikrishnananda Svami, a Hindu saint and founder of Hindu Yogasrama of Benares. It contains the idea of ethics mentioned in Hinduism according to Srikrishnananda. The book, once used as a textbook for the schools (in Bengal, Bihar and United Provinces of British India [Utt...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
185 TIFF images

15. EAP921/6/3/121

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP921/6/3/121
Title:
ব্রহ্মবৈবর্ত পুরাণের কাশীমাহাত্ম্য
Scope & Content:
The 5th sectiois text is a purāṇic text that eulogizes Kashi. It is a part of the Brahmavaivartapurāṇa. Folios after the 16th one are missing. Another folio paginated as 27 occurs after the 16th folio; Complete / Incomplete: Incomplete MS. No colohon found; Date of copying: Not found. Custodial...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:
35 TIFF images

16. EAP921/6/3/159

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP921/6/3/159
Title:
বাংলা অনুবাদ সহ শিবশতক, দেবীস্তোত্র, কাশীশতক এবং তারাস্তোত্র
Scope & Content:
Bāṇeśvara was from Guptipāṛā (Guptipallī) and became sequentially the court-poet of Krishna Chandra of Nabadwip, Chitrasen of Burdwan [Bardhaman], Nawab Alivardi Khan and Naba Krishna Deb of Shobhabazar. The manuscript is a modern notebook. The scribe wrote on one side of the pages. The first te...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali and Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
116 TIFF images

17. WD166

Reference (shelfmark):
WD166
Title:
A ruined bridge near Benares (U.P.). 13 December 1789. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Scope & Content:
A ruined bridge near Benares (U.P.). 13 December 1789. Inscribed on back in pencil: ‘Near Benares’; in ink: ‘9’. Pencil and wash; 10.5 by 15.75 ins. Purchased 8 June 1953. Note: The Puran Pul, the ruined Mughal bridge over the river Barna on the road from Benares north past Sarnath. The bri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1788-1789
Extent:
1 Item

18. WD167

Reference (shelfmark):
WD167
Title:
Near Shivala Ghat, Benares (U.P.). 17 December 1789. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Scope & Content:
Near Sivala Ghat, Benares (U.P.). 17 November 1789. Inscribed on back in pencil: ‘Near Sewalla Gaut, Banaris, No.13’; in ink: ‘Nr 6. Near Shuwallah Gaut, Benares.’ Pencil and wash; 14.5 by 19 ins. Purchased 8 June 1953.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1788-1789
Extent:
1 Item

19. WD168

Reference (shelfmark):
WD168
Title:
The city of Benares (U.P.) from Amrit Rao's Ghat to the Munshi Ghat. 22 November 1789.. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Scope & Content:
The ghats on the river front at Benares from Amrit Rao's Ghat to the Munshi Ghat. 22 November 1789. Inscribed on front of mount in pencil: ‘Part of the City of Bernares’; on back in ink: ‘Nr 49. Part of the City of Bernares.’ Water-colour; 15 by 21.25 ins. Purchased 8 June 1953.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1789
Extent:
1 Item

20. WD1295

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1295
Title:
Shivala Ghat, Benares (U.P.), with the Daniells' budgerow and a morpunkhi on the river. Original sketch taken 17 or 22 November 1789.. Artist(s): Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Scope & Content:
Water-colour painting of Shivala Ghat at Benares (now known as Varanasi) in Uttar Pradesh with the Daniells' budgerow and a 'morpunkhi' on the river by Thomas (1749-1840) and William (1769-1837) Daniell in 1789. The original sketch was taken 17 or 22 November 1789, by William Daniell. Inscribe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1802
Extent:
1 Item