Grihya Sutra is a manual detailing the domestic religious ceremonies performed by both Hindu male and female householders over the fire. The Sutras, together with the Shrauta Sutras, which deal with the grand Vedic sacrifices, and the Dharma Sutras, which deal with rules of conduct, make up the ...
This is a text that contains different views on monastic school of Shankara on some important points of Vedanta. Custodial history: Family inheritance. Extent and format of original material: Collection Level 17, Series Level: 16 files, File Level: 11 Vol of 20 folios, Item Level: Paper folios...
This is an Indian astrological text. refers to the division of a zodiacal sign (rāśi) into parts. Each such fractional part of a sign called aṃśa has a source of influence associated with it. Those sources of influence come to be associated with collections of regions around the zodiac. There ar...
Vedanta-Paribhasha is an epistemological work on Advaita Vedanta It is authored by Varadarajaaraja Dikshita. The author is believed to have lived in the seventeenth century. In this work he has adopted the method and phraseology of Navya-Nyaya, introduced by Gangesa Upadhyaya in the fourteenth c...
Matrika-nyasais the installation of the Divine Mothers.Tantric works like Tantrarāja and Kulacūḍāmaṇi discuss the worship of Matrikas as Shaktis or lGarland of letters . A process of this worship is described in Devi Gita,a part of Devi Bhagavata Purana [Bhāgavatapurāṇa]. It involves installa...
Hitopadesha, lit. Beneficial Advice, is a Sanskrit text consisting of fables with both animal and human characters. It incorporates maxims, wisdom and advice on political affairs in simple, elegant language. It has been widely translated. The oldest manuscript found in Nepal is dated 14th centur...
Samaveda [Sāmaveda] is one of the four Vedas in Hinduism. It is the Veda of melodies and chants. It is an ancient Vedic Sanskrit text, and part of the scriptures of Hinduism. It is a liturgical text which consists of 1,549 verses. All but 75 verses have been taken from the Rigveda [Rgveda]. Thr...