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Yajñarudra Paddhati manuscript preview

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Yajñarudra Paddhati

eap_79021071

The Yajña Rudra Paddhati is a technical ritual manual that provides a step-by-step guide for performing a Rudra-Yajña. It covers whole ritual with others deites pujā ritu...

Nityakarma manuscript preview

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Nityakarma

eap_79021069

This is a ritual text to Nepal region. It describes several deitys pūjā vidhi at home which is a daily ritual for a Hindu people. The manuscript is good readble and red i...

Bhagavadgītā with Newārī translation manuscript preview

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Bhagavadgītā with Newārī translation

eap_79021065

This is a Bhagavadgītā with Newārī language translation text. The works covers all 18 chapters of the Bhagavadgītā. It starts with Śrī Kṛṣṇa Stuti. The style of the text...

Bagalāmukhī Dīpadāna manuscript preview

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Bagalāmukhī Dīpadāna

eap_79021063

The Bagalāmukhī Dīpadāna is a Tantric ritual manual focused on the offering of lamps (Dīpadāna) to the goddess Bagalāmukhī. Bagalāmukhī is the eighth of the ten Mahāvidyā...

Rājavijayasaṅgraha manuscript preview

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Rājavijayasaṅgraha

eap_79021062

The Rājavijayasaṅgraha is a significant Sanskrit text of Rājanīti (Political Science) and Jyotiṣa (Astrology), attributed to Raṇahastin, son of Ekanātha, composed under t...

Viśvakarmavāstuśāstra manuscript preview

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Viśvakarmavāstuśāstra

eap_79021061

The Viśvakarmavāstuśāstra is the primary textbook of the Viśvakarmā school of architecture, it is attributed to Viśvakarmā, the divine architect of the god. The works cov...

Prauḍha Manoramā manuscript preview

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Prauḍha Manoramā

eap_79021060

This is a sub commentary text Prauḍha Manoramā. Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita wrote the Siddhānta Kaumudī to rearrange Pāṇini’s rules, and then wrote the Manoramā to explain the deepe...

Ratnāvalīsāra (Homaratna) manuscript preview

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Ratnāvalīsāra (Homaratna)

eap_79021059

The Homa Ratna is a technical ritual manual dedicated to the performance of Vedic and Tantric fire sacrifices (Homa). It is frequently attributed to Gaurīdatta Kauśika. T...

Varāha Purāṇa manuscript preview

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Varāha Purāṇa

eap_79021058

The Varāha Purāṇa is one of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas and is primarily a Vaiṣṇava text. It takes its name from the Varāha Avatāra (the Boar incarnation of Viṣṇu), who resc...

Guhyakāli Aṣṭottaraśatanāma manuscript preview

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Guhyakāli Aṣṭottaraśatanāma

eap_79021057

The Guhyakāli Aṣṭottaraśatanāma is a Tantric hymn consisting of the 108 names of Guhya Kāli. In the Nepal region particularly within the Newar Vajrayāna and Hindu Tantric...

Siddhānta Kaumudī manuscript preview

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Siddhānta Kaumudī

eap_79021054

The Siddhānta Kaumudī a sanskrit vyākaraṇa text composed by Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita in the 17th century, it revolutionized the study of Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī. The work is divided...