Subject: Customs and traditions / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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):: EAP900/2/2/5
Title:: Звіт про діяльність, складений Грушевським М
Scope & Content:: Title: Звіт про діяльність, складений Грушевським М. Transliterated title: Zvit pro diialʼnistʼ, skladenyi Hrushevskym M. Translated title: Report about the activity, composed by M. Hrushevsky. Fols. 1. Cover of M. Hrushevsky's brochure “Report about the activity of the Presidium of the Shevc...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Ukrainian
Date Range:: 1896
Extent:: 76 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP918/10/117
Title:: Jaṭā Lakṣaṇam: Vyākyāna Sahitam
Scope & Content:: This is a book on hair dressing with commentary. 1 printed book.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1907
Extent:: 72 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/2/2/29
Title:: তত্ত্ববোধ / আত্মবোধ
Scope & Content:: Images 4 to 10 contain sections from the Tattvabodha, and images 11 to 16 contain sections from the Atmabodha. Both texts belong to Advaita-Vedanta tradition. However, images 2 and 11 contain sections from Vaishnavite texts. No other details are available.; Complete/ Incomplete: Incomplete; Date...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 12th century-15th century
Extent:: 17 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/4/1/2
Title:: Sylhet
Scope & Content:: It is a brief record on Sylhet. The writer who stayed at there for 2 yrs, described his experiences and observations on Sylhet. He briefly depicted about general characteristic of people, peculiar manners & customs, religion and religious practices, education and other reletive subjects of t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1880
Extent:: 125 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/4/1/11
Title:: পাচন ও মুষ্টিযোগ চিকিৎসা
Scope & Content:: It is a concise write ups about Ayurveda treatment or indigenous techniques of India. The writer described some basic ayurvedic remedies for common diseases which people had faced generally.Instead of western medicine, the writer suggested to use indigenous customs of treatment. Custodial histo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali
Date Range:: 1894
Extent:: 181 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/4/1/12
Title:: ধর্ম্ম, সমাজ ও স্বাধীন চিন্তা
Scope & Content:: A book on religion and society. It was depicted traditional thoughts on Dharma and Society. The writer cited from Veda, Mahabharata and other old religious text as well as he also carried his thoughs with latest European concepts on Society and religion. He continued his discussion on faminine c...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali
Date Range:: c 1920
Extent:: 185 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/4/1/15
Title:: চূর্ণক
Scope & Content:: A collection of three writings of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Basically these analytically described articles were written by him to discord traditional concepts about social or religious ideologies. Custodial history: With the immense contributions of Henry Vincent Bayley, Raj Narayan Basu and other e...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali
Date Range:: 1852
Extent:: 99 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/4/1/32
Title:: সুশ্রুত-সংহিতা
Scope & Content:: The Sushruta Samhita is an ancient Sanskrit text on medicine and surgery, and one of the most important such treatises on this subject to survive from the ancient world. The Compendium of Suśruta is one of the foundational texts of Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), alongside the Caraka-Saṃ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali
Date Range:: 1900
Extent:: 739 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/4/2/13
Title:: {অসনাক্ত চিকিৎসা পুঁথি}
Scope & Content:: Traditional medical text on the preparation of various mixtures. In Sanskrit with interlinear translation in Bengali. Incomplete manuscript. No other detail about manuscript available. Custodial history: With the immense contributions of Henry Vincent Bayley, Raj Narayan Basu and other erudite ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 12th century-18th century
Extent:: 75 TIFF images

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