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Bodhāhnikaprakaraṇa manuscript preview

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Bodhāhnikaprakaraṇa

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Bodhāhnikaprakaraṇa is a Sanskrit text related to the Vedic ritual tradition. There are 204 verses where the rituals are described. Most probably it is related to Śrauta...

Nāṭyaśāstra manuscript preview

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Nāṭyaśāstra

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Nāṭyaśāstra is a Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts. The text is attributed to sage Bharat. Though in this text name of the Bharata is not mentioned anywhere. As we...

Śrīkula-mūlaratna-paṁcakāvatāra manuscript preview

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Śrīkula-mūlaratna-paṁcakāvatāra

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Śrīkulamūlaratnapaṁcakāvatāra is associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism or Tantric Buddhist traditions. There are eleven chapters (called Patala). In this text seed syllables...

Amarakośapañjikā manuscript preview

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Amarakośapañjikā

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The Amarakośa is written by Amarasimha who was an ancient Indian scholar. Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana is the another name of the text which is a kind of a Sanskrit lexicon.The name...

Catuḥṣaṣṭi-liṅgayātrā-māhātmya manuscript preview

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Catuḥṣaṣṭi-liṅgayātrā-māhātmya

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This text deals with Shaivism. It is a complete text. The text Catuḥṣaṣṭi-liṅgayātrā-māhātmya refers the glorification of pilgrimage of Varanasi where sixty-four liṅgas a...

Upavana-vinoda manuscript preview

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Upavana-vinoda

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Upavana-vinoda is an Anthology compiled by Sarngadhara. It is an encyclopsedic work dealing with a variety of subjects, such as medicine, politics, botany, asceticism, rh...

Vedāntaparibhāṣā manuscript preview

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Vedāntaparibhāṣā

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The Vedānta-paribhāṣā, authored by Dharmarājādhvarīndradīkṣita, is a treatise on Advaita Vedanta epistemology. It is a incomplete manuscript. There are eight chapters cal...

Vājasaneya Mantra Saṃhitā manuscript preview

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Vājasaneya Mantra Saṃhitā

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This is a text of Vājasaneya Mantra Saṃhitā. It has only mantra. The manuscript contains 21st Adhyāya to 40th Adhyāya. The Saṃhitā in Śukla Yajurveda is known as Vājasane...

Reṇukāsahasranāmastotra manuscript preview

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Reṇukāsahasranāmastotra

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The Reṇukāsahasranāmastotra is an important Purāṇic text containing the 1,000 names of Goddess Reṇukā. In mythology, Reṇukā is the wife of the great Sage Jamadagni and th...

Saṃkaṭāsahasranāmākhyastotra manuscript preview

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Saṃkaṭāsahasranāmākhyastotra

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The Saṅkaṭāsahasranāmākhyaṃ Stotram is an esoteric Śākta devotional text. Saṅkaṭā Devi is regarded as an aspect of Goddess Durgā who destroys saṅkaṭa (dangers, crises, an...

Kālisahasrākṣarī manuscript preview

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Kālisahasrākṣarī

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The Kālisahasrākṣarī is an extraordinarily potent and highly esoteric text belonging to the Śākta Tantra tradition, specifically the Kālī Kula (the lineage focused on God...