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Nityakarma
EAP790/21/69 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
A collection of Sanskrit mantras with Newari titles for daily recitation and ritual offerings, including to the guru (1v), Sūrya and Candra (3v), Gaṇeśa (4v), Devī (4v), Bhagavatī (5r), Viṣṇu (5v), Nārāyaṇa (6r), Hanumāna (6r), Bhairava (6v), Sarasvatī (7r), Tulasi (7v), and to Vasundharā (8r).
Saṃskṛtamañjarī
EAP790/21/70 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
Appears to be a handbook on Sanskrit grammar and synonyms
Yajña Rūdra Paddhati
EAP790/21/71 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
A Śaiva ritual manual, dated Saṃvat 1765 or 1707/1708 CE (the colophon does not name the author: ten works titled ‘Mahārudrapaddhati’ are listed by Kane).
Gṛhyasūtra Bhāṣya
EAP790/21/72 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
Gṛhyasūtra-s are on domestic religious ceremonies. This bhāṣya (commentary) is by Gadādhara Dīkṣita, ‘son of Vāmana’, on the Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra; the manuscript has 20 kaṇḍikā-s of the first kāṇḍa.
Rāmāyaṇa Āraṇyakāṇḍa
EAP790/21/73 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Newari
This manuscript has 82 sargas of the Araṇyakāṇḍa and is dated 1789/1790 CE.
Sandhyāvidhi
EAP790/21/75 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
A manual on the recitation of the Gāyatrī mantra as part of evening rituals, dated 1849 CE (the margins give the abbreviation ‘Sa Vi’, while ‘Gāyatrī Vidhi’ is written on f. 3r by the scribe Yajñadattaśarman.
Bālagraha Stotra
EAP790/21/76 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
This contains prayers recited to mitigate the impact on children of hostile astral forces. It includes an invocation to Kārtikeya.
Ādityahṛdaya
EAP790/21/77 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
A hymn to the sun from the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, where Sage Agastya imparts it to Rāma on the eve of his final encounter with Rāvaṇa (Book 6, ‘Yuddhakāṇḍa’)
Śārīrakamīmāṃsā Bhāṣya, Chapter 2
EAP790/21/78 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
This is from the second adhyāya of Ādi Śaṅkara’s bhāṣya on Bādarāyaṇa’s Brahmasūtra-s (an Advaita text), Sūtra-s 2.4.4–2.4.37 (starting towards the end of the fourth sūtra and continuing till the end of the pāda). The scribe is apparently the same as for EAP790/21/79 and EAP790/21/80.
Tattvavaiśāradī on Patañjali's Yogasūtras
EAP790/21/81 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
The complete text of the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali with the Samkhya Pravacana of Vyasa (seventh century CE) and the Tattvavaiśāradī by Vācaspati Miśra (ninth century CE).
Mīmāṃsāparibhāṣā
EAP790/21/82 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
A short work explaining principles of Mīmāṃsā according to the Bhāṭṭa school, by Kṛṣṇayajvan alias Kṛṣṇadīkṣita (17th century), first three folios missing.
Laghuśabdenduśekhara
EAP790/21/83 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
A commentary on Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita’s Siddhāntakaumudī by Nāgojibhaṭṭa (also known as Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, active c. 1700 – 1750); the manuscript has sūtras on kṛdanta prakaraṇa.