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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/31/11
Title:: Rituals and fortune telling
Scope & Content:: Incantations and instructions for various rituals such as for relieving one from misfortunes, removing termite nests, purifying a house; instructions for finding fair dates and months. 54 pages. Cham manuscript bound by threads; no covers; written by marker on industrial paper folded in half; ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 54 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/31/13
Title:: Fortune telling, incantations for curing, calendar calculation
Scope & Content:: Instructions for fortune telling for illnesses, age compatibility, destiny, finding lost assets. Other parts include secret methods for shamans to cure illnesses; calculating methods for Cham Awal and Ahier calendars. 102 pages. Cham manuscript bound by threads; plastic cover; written in Chine...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 106 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32
Title:: Cham manuscripts inherited by Mr. Ma Ngoc Thanh, from Lam Thuan Village
Scope & Content:: 24 Cham manuscripts, paper, originally belonged to Mr. Ma Ngoc Thanh. Subjects include: religious ceremonies, fortune telling, mantras, epics, poems, dictionary. Manuscripts were collected for research purposes by Mr. Thanh Phan. 24 manuscripts of handmade paper, handwritten text. Manuscripts ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 602 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/2
Title:: The works of shamans
Scope & Content:: The works of Gru Urang shamans. Rituals performed on land that used to be a graveyard; purification rituals for buffaloes and people; finding the proper zodiac hours, days, months; learning about the zodiac animals; incantations to neutralize magic spells. 82 pages. Cham manuscript; covered by...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 86 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/18
Title:: Three poems on fortune telling, travel, and morality
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes three poems: a poem about the instructions on finding the fair dates, months, fair and deteriorating directions for departure (ariya harei balan); a narrative poem about things witnessed by a Cham person during his/her first travel (ariya deh apuei); a teaching poem for y...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 78 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/19
Title:: Finding auspicious dates and months
Scope & Content:: Instructions for finding fair dates and months to start a job (offering ceremony, house construction, wedding); finding the departure's direction corresponding to different dates. Other parts mention rice offering ceremonies (ngap yang padai); kitchen constrution ritual. 14 pages. Cham manuscr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 14 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/33
Title:: Cham manuscripts inherited by Mr. Nai Cao Liem, from Vu Bon Village
Scope & Content:: 33 Cham manuscripts, paper, palm-leaf, originally belonged to Mr. Nai Cao Liem. Subjects include: religious ceremonies, fortune telling, mantras, legends. Manuscripts were collected for research purposes by Mr. Thanh Phan. 33 manuscripts of handmade paper, handwritten text. Manuscripts of Chin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 18th century-20th century
Extent:: 1275 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/33/18
Title:: Rituals and belief of Cham people
Scope & Content:: Various contents: healing wounds caused by animals, skin infections,instructions on calculating the Cham calendar; Mantras read before using a pen; talismans drawn by the matchmaker on the mat used the newlyweds; blow soul into a Heng bird's body; mantras read before eating the offering food in ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 62 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1023/1
Title:: Amir Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:: This is one of 28 collections of rare medieval manuscripts digitised by the EAP1023 project team in Newār settlements in Rural Kathmandu and hill areas of Nepal. This collection contain 60 manuscripts digitised from a private collection in Patan, Nepal. The owner of the material is Amir Shakya. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Nepali, Classical, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th century-18th century
Extent:: 1658 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1023/1/34
Title:: भास्वतिकरण
Scope & Content:: This is a text of Jyotisha Shastra. Custodial history: Inherited from the father. Extent and format of original material: Collection Level 1, Series Level: 60 files, File Level: 34 Vol of 20 folios, Item Level:Paper folios 20. Owner(s) of original material: Amir Shakya.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Newari, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 24 TIFF images

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