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1. EAP1023/16

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/16
Title:
Krishnaman 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 23 manuscripts digitised from a private collection in Sankhu, Nepal. The owner of the material is Krishnaman S...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century-20th century
Extent:
327 TIFF images

2. EAP1023/16/22

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/16/22
Title:
यज्ञोपवित बिधी
Scope & Content:
This text discusses about the ritual of sacred thread or the Yajnopavita. Upanayana or Yajnopavita is one of the traditional rites of passages that marked the acceptance of a student by a teacher. Then his formal education starts. It is an important and widely discussed ritual in ancient Sanskri...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
20 TIFF images

3. EAP1023/16/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/16/10
Title:
त्रिपुर महोपनिषद भाष्यम्
Scope & Content:
The Tripura Upanishad is a medieval era minor Upanishad. Composed in Sanskrit, this text is classified as a Shakta Upanishad attached to Rigveda [Rgveda]. Tripura Upanishad places goddess Tripura Sundari as the ultimate energy and power of the universe. She is described as the supreme consciousn...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
20 TIFF images

4. EAP1023/16/19

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1023/16/19
Title:
अगस्त्यार्ग बिधी
Scope & Content:
Agasthya is a Vedic sage and believed as the incarnation of Brahma. Agasthya appears in numerous itihasas myths and epics including Ramayana [Rāmāyaṇa] and Mahabharata [Mahābhārata]. He is one of the seven reveted Vedic sages. He is also revered in Shaktism and Vaishnavism. He the one of th...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 TIFF images