Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
TUCL
Saṃvat 1970 (1913 ce.)
EAP1023/15/10
An invocation to Kārtavīrya to protect oneself from bodily harm (kavaca: armour). Some Purāṇas describe Kārtavīrya as Paraśurāma’s kśatriya antagonist, whereas in this te...
TUCL
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EAP1023/15/9
A manual on abhyudāyika śrāddha, or ritual offerings to ancestors made at weddings, births and other celebrations.
TUCL
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EAP1023/15/8
Commentary by Karkopādhyaya on Kātyāyana’s ‘Śrāddha sūtra’
TUCL
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EAP1023/15/7
A work ascribed to Kālidāsa with a commentary; the manuscript is in fragments.
TUCL
Saṃvat 1933 (1876 ce.)
EAP1023/15/6
This describes how a person who dies in Kāśī achieves instant liberation. The author is Sureśvarācharya, the manuscript is dated 1933 Vikram Saṃvat/1876 ce.
TUCL
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EAP1023/15/5
Commentary (incomplete) on the Advaitin Nṛsiṃhāśrama’s ‘Denuncation of the Doctrine of Difference’ by his student, Nārāyaṇāśrama (c. 1595).
TUCL
Śaka 1720 (1798 ce.)
EAP1023/15/4
A manual for the performance of the śrāddha ceremony for ancestors without ‘piṇḍa’ (rice balls)
TUCL
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EAP1023/15/3
This tells the story underlying the Lakṣavarttī ritual which women perform by lighting wicks for 1,00,000 lamps.
TUCL
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EAP1023/15/2
In this 11th chapter of the sixth book of the Yogavāsiṣṭha, ‘Nirvāṇa Prakaraṇa’, Vāsiṣṭha explains to Rāma he may attain ‘liberation while living’ without renouncing the...