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Unknown manuscript preview

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Unknown

eap_79021122

Do not get any name of the manuscript. The manuscript content is about drama. Name of the characters, Īndumatī, Madanāvatī, Madanā, kumāra, Mālinī etc. are given in the d...

Pīthāvatāra-strotra manuscript preview

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Pīthāvatāra-strotra

eap_79021120

The Pīthāvatāra-strotra is an important Shakta text. Most probably it deals with the Śakti-pīṭhas and their locations etcetera. The manuscript is incomplete and Several f...

Pīṭhāvatāra-strotra manuscript preview

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Pīṭhāvatāra-strotra

eap_79021119

The Pīṭhāvatāra-strotra is an important medieval Shakta Tantra text. It details the Śakti-pīṭhas, their locations etcetera. The manuscript is incomplete. Several folios a...

Nāṭyaśāstra manuscript preview

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Nāṭyaśāstra

eap_79021108

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

eap_79021106

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

Śrī Kṛṣṇa JanmaKathā manuscript preview

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Śrī Kṛṣṇa JanmaKathā

eap_79021093

The Śrī Kṛṣṇa JanmaKathā from the Tenth Canto (Daśamaskandha) of the Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahāpurāṇa attributed to Vyāsa. This specific section covers the first few chapters....

Ekādaśī - Dvādaśī Māhātmya manuscript preview

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Ekādaśī - Dvādaśī Māhātmya

eap_79021088

This is a composite manuscript over two section, Ekādaśī Māhātmya from Bhabiśya Purāṇa and Dvādaśī Māhātmya from Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra. Both two text had in convarsation...

Dūrgāsaptaśati manuscript preview

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Dūrgāsaptaśati

eap_79021084

The Dūrgāsaptaśati (also known as the Devī Māhātmya or Caṇḍī Pāṭha) is one of the most sacred and revered texts particularly within the Śākta tradition. It is found withi...

Naiṣadhīyacarita manuscript preview

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Naiṣadhīyacarita

eap_79021068

The Naiṣadhiyacaritam, composed by the 12th-century poet Śrīharṣa, son of Śrīhīra and Māmalladevī. It is included among the best five Mahākāvyas according to tradition. T...

Adhyātmya Rāmāyaṇa manuscript preview

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Adhyātmya Rāmāyaṇa

eap_79021064

The Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa is a highly influential spiritual and philosophical retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa. It follows basic plot of Vālmīki’s epic. The text is structured as a...

Rāmāyaṇa (Kiṣkindhā kāṇḍa) manuscript preview

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Rāmāyaṇa (Kiṣkindhā kāṇḍa)

eap_79021056

This is a great epic Rāmāyaṇa attributed to Vālmīki. It has seven chapters, in which the work contains the fifth chapter Kiṣkindhā Kāṇḍa. The Kiṣkindhā Kāṇḍa covers the a...