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Vārāhīkalpa-tantra
ark:/12148/btv1b10082464m Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
text on the worship of Vārāhī, the Śakti of the Varāha avatar of Viṣṇu, and one of the saptamātṛkās (seven mother goddesses) in Hindu tradition.
Nighaṇṭu.
ark:/12148/btv1b10083175p Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
This contains part of a glossary on explaining the names of Vedic deities and how they are derived. The complete work has three kāṇḍas (thematic categories), of which this manuscript contains the first (naighaṇṭuka kāṇḍa).
Nīlamatapurāṇa.
ark:/12148/btv1b10083132p Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
The text describes the Kashmir’s history, landscape and religions. It is also known as the Kasmira Māhātmya. Kalhaṇa drew on it for writing the history of Kashmir in the Rājataraṅgiṇī.
Bhagavad-gītā
ark:/12148/btv1b10083008r Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
The Gītā accompanied by a commentary from the late 14th-early 15th century. Śrīdharasvāmin was mahant of the Govardhana maṭha in Puri (established by Adi Śaṅkara).
Rāmāyaṇa
ark:/12148/btv1b100832233 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
This contains all seven Kāṇḍas of the Rāmāyaṇa (the Laṅkākāṇḍa is incomplete).
Yajurveda
ark:/12148/btv1b100831440 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
The manuscript has padapāṭha marks to ensure correct enunciation.
Bhāgavatapurāṇa.
ark:/12148/btv1b10082815h Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
Considered one of the 18 mahapuranas, its subject is bhakti towards Kṛṣṇa. This text is accompanied by commentary.
Nirukta-vṛtti.
ark:/12148/btv1b10083166q Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
A commentary on the Nirukta, Yāska’s text on the etymology of Vedic words, considered one of the Vedāṅgas.
Śārīrakamīmāṃsā Bhāṣya Chapter 1
EAP790/21/79 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
This contains all four pāda-s of the first adhyāya of Ādi Śaṅkara’s bhāṣya on Bādarāyaṇa’s Brahmasūtra-s (an Advaita text). The scribe (apparently the same as for EAP790/21/78 and EAP790/21/80) seems to have missed transcribing the majority of Sūtra 1.1.7.
Śārīrakamīmāṃsā Bhāṣya Chapter 4
EAP790/21/80 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
This contains the third and fourth adhyāya-s of Adi Śaṅkara’s bhāṣya on Bādarāyaṇa’s Brahmasūtra-s (an Advaita text), apparently by the same scribe as for EAP790/21/78 and EAP790/21/79. The first five folios are yet to be identified, the text ends in the middle of 5v, and foliation restarts for the third chapter. Folios 1 and 2 in the third chapter are missing, so we start with 3.1.2 The concluding chapter is followed by the date: Śaka 1833 (1911 CE).
Composite manuscript: Pañcākṣarī Muktāvalī, Sarasvatī stotra, Sarasvatī ārādhana niyama
EAP1023/25/5 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
The first text seems to be the Śivapañcākṣarī from the Pañcākṣarī Muktāvalī: it contains the Śivastava from the Nāndikeśvara-saṃhitā whose authorship is attributed to Viṣṇu (31 r). It is followed by the Sarasvatīdaśaślokī ascribed to the Āśvalāyana Śrauta Sūtras (31v–37r), with the accents marked in red, and the Sarasvatī ārādhana niyama (37).
Rāmāyaṇa Sundarakāṇḍa
EAP1023/25/4 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
This contains episodes from the fifth book of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (the title page refers to it as the fourth), from Hanumāna’s leap across the ocean to the building of the bridge to reach Laṅkā.