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Place Shantipur, West Bengal, India

1. Add Or 4918

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4918
Title:
Temples by the Bhagirathi at Santipur. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
Scope & Content:
Temples by the Bhagirathi at Santipur. Inscribed below in pencil and ink: ‘Nuddeah Santipore.’ 220 by 350 mm. Note: It is by no means clear whether Nadia or Santipur is here intended, as the river has washed away riverine buildings in both. Watercolour of temples in Santipur along the Bhagir...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1820-1821
Extent:
1 Item

2. EAP781/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1
Title:
Santipur and its neighbourhood: text and image production history from early modern Bengal through public and private collections
Scope & Content:
The project is a digitisation programme of all available rare books from the earliest time till 1950s and in Bengali language housed in selected libraries. Once the project is over the materials will be available to scholars both in-house and through http access. The original materials are locate...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, Bengali, English, Hindi, Maithili, Panjabi, Prakrit, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
8th century-18th century
Extent:
291,035 TIFF images

3. EAP781/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1
Title:
Collection of manuscripts digitised from Santipur Bangiya Puran Parishad
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, and Undetermined
Date Range:
8th century-18th century
Extent:
102,775 TIFF images

4. EAP781/1/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1/1
Title:
Bhāgavatapurāṇa (Rudragīta)
Scope & Content:
It is one of the 18 Mahāpurāṇas and a canonical text of the Vaishnavas. It is divided into 12 chapters called Skandha. The MS contains the 24th chapter of the 4th skandha of Bhāgavata Purāṇa.There is a haplologic error. In the original, the next line starts with Śrīrudra uvāca। yūyaṁ vediṣadaḥ pu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
6th century
Extent:
12 TIFF Images

5. EAP781/1/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1/2
Title:
Viṣṇusahasranāman
Scope & Content:
This text reckons the thousand names of Viṣṇu. It is a part of the Dānadharma Parvan, an upaparvan under the Anuśāsana parvan of the Mahābhārata. The colophon erroneously ascribes it to be a part of Śāntiparvan. But it is actually a part of Anuśāsanaparvan. Extent and format of original and physi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
6th century
Extent:
30 TIFF Images

6. EAP781/1/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1/3
Title:
Kavikalpadruma
Scope & Content:
It is a versified lexicon of Sanskrit verb roots along with their meaning (Dhātupāṭha). Vopadeva used to live at Vedapada (G. B. Palsule identifies it as Bedoda, situated in the Adilabad district in the then Hyderabad state, at a distance of about 10 miles to the west of the river Vardha) in the ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
64 TIFF Images

7. EAP781/1/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1/4
Title:
Utpattitantra & Vāmaliṅgapramāṇa or Bāṇaliṅgapramāṇa or Bāṇaliṅgacihna
Scope & Content:
Tantric text. It consists of 20 Paṭalas of the Utpattitantra starting from 362 up to 381 in 57 folios. These patalas belong to the chapter called Jnanotpatti. According to the colophon Vāmaliṅgapramāṇa or Bāṇaliṅgapramāṇa is a part of the Nārada-Gautama-Saṁvāda of Vāyu Purāṇa, one of the 18 Mahāp...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
117 TIFF Images

8. EAP781/1/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1/5
Title:
Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana or Amarakośa
Scope & Content:
It is the foremost Sanskrit lexicographic text. Original text is divided into 3 Kāṇḍas. Each Kāṇḍas are again divided into many Vargas. This MS consists of text up to 91st verse of the Manuṣyavarga of the 2nd Kāṇḍa. First Kāṇḍa ends at folio no. 30.The text consists of gloss in some pages. Extent...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
5th century
Extent:
118 TIFF Images

9. EAP781/1/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1/6
Title:
Raghuvaṁśa
Scope & Content:
Literature. Mahākāvya. The story of the Raghu dynasty. The text of this MS stops at the middle of canto 11 while there are 19 cantos in the original text. 10th canto ends in 80th folio. Extent and format of original and physical characteristics: 85 Folios; Incomplete MS.; Extremely fragile. The o...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
4th century-5th century
Extent:
172 TIFF Images

10. EAP781/1/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1/7
Title:
Aśaucasaṅkṣepa
Scope & Content:
The book deals with aśauca, one of the major topics of Dharmaśāstra. The author was the disciple of Vāsudeva Sārvabhauma and was a guru of Gīva Goswāmin. Extent and format of original and physical characteristics: 17 Folios; Complete MS.; Extremely fragile. The original size of the folios are 35X...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
36 TIFF Images