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This is a composite manuscript, comprising three texts. The first text, although labeled in the catalogue as the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana, is actually the Sarvadurgatipariśodhanasamādhi, a ritual manual that illustrates in color the hand gestures (mudrās) associated with purification rituals of funerary rites. This text is digitized in a jumbled order, beginning after the third text (Rajaḥpravāhavidhi?), with a picture on folio 1 and continuing to folio 28. It then resumes at the start of the manuscript from folio 29 and continues to folio 61.1. It details various mantras and dhāraṇīs with mudrās, performed while holding various tantric ritual implements, and also indicates the color in which the hands performing these gestures should be painted. The second text, the Asthiprakṣālanavidhi, running from folio 61.3 to 68.5, seems to be a ritual text as well, such as mandala rituals. The final text, the Rajaḥpravāhavidhi, is a vidhi (ritual manual) and runs from folio 68.6 to 70.2.The manuscript is in book format, with the page numbers written in pencil on the right side of the text.
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