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The pape manuscript is Kāmaratna is a tantric text by Śrīnātha. The text consists sixteen upadeśa(chapters). The manuscript consists complete 16 chapers. The text deals with subjects as Tantra, Mantra, Yantra and also medical topics. It contains a rituals and practices intended to influence or gain control over the opposite sex, along with other subjects. The text features numerous yantras symbolic diagrams (f. 6b–10b, 11b, 12b–18a, 23b–24a, 40b–41b, 42b–46a),accompanied by inscriptions, depicting human figures, animals, architectural forms, and decorative floral motifs. Title is taken from colophon (f. 62). It is written in 4–16 lines per leaf.; 62 leaves are foliated 1–62, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes are covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; some folios covered in yellow turmeric powder.
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