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178 Total manuscripts
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Sucandra Gṛhapati Kathā manuscript preview

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Sucandra Gṛhapati Kathā

eap_10231038

The manuscript contains a Buddhist didactic narrative centred on the wealthy householder Sucandra and his wife Candravatī. The story portrays the prosperity and religious...

Cikitsādhikāra manuscript preview

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Cikitsādhikāra

eap_10231037

The manuscript is an Ayurvedic medical treatise devoted primarily to therapeutics (cikitsā). The extant chapter headings reveal a systematic arrangement of diseases and t...

Girvāṇavāgmañjarī manuscript preview

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Girvāṇavāgmañjarī

eap_10231036

The manuscript contains the Girvāṇavāgmañjarī, an elementary Sanskrit instructional text composed for beginners. The author explicitly states that the work was written “f...

Kāmaśāstra manuscript preview

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Kāmaśāstra

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The manuscript is a work on Kāmaśāstra dealing with the theory and practice of love, erotic relations, and conjugal compatibility. The text opens with an invocation to Ar...

Bhāsvatī-sūtra manuscript preview

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Bhāsvatī-sūtra

eap_10231034

The manuscript contains the Bhāsvatīkaraṇa, an astronomical treatise belonging to the tradition of Indian Siddhānta astronomy. The opening verses attribute the work to Sa...

Tantric mantras manuscript preview

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Tantric mantras

eap_10231033

The manuscript appears to be a collection of tantric mantras and ritual instructions centred on the worship of Bhavānī, Pārvatī, Gaurī, and Mahādeva. The text opens with...

Buddhist Stotra manuscript preview

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Buddhist Stotra

eap_10231032

The manuscript appears to be a Buddhist devotional text combining hymnic praise, religious instruction, and descriptions of meritorious acts. One extant passage opens wit...

Svāyambhu Mahāpurāṇa manuscript preview

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Svāyambhu Mahāpurāṇa

eap_10231030

The manuscript is a collection of Buddhist devotional hymns (stotras) dedicated to various sacred figures and concepts of the Buddhist tradition. The extant colophons ind...

Vaidyajīvana manuscript preview

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Vaidyajīvana

eap_10231029

The manuscript contains the Vaidyajīvana, an Ayurvedic medical treatise composed by Lolimbarāja, who is identified in the colophons as the son of Divākara (Divākarasūnu)....

Gaṇeśa-stotra-pāṭha manuscript preview

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Gaṇeśa-stotra-pāṭha

eap_10231028

The manuscript is concerned with the worship of Mahāgaṇapati and appears to contain ritual instructions, mantras, hymns, and procedures for devotional and ceremonial prac...

Ṣoḍaśa-daśāyāka-parīkṣā manuscript preview

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Ṣoḍaśa-daśāyāka-parīkṣā

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On the basis of the extant text, the manuscript may be provisionally identified as a divinatory manual concerned with the examination of yogas and prognostic conditions t...

Phalita Jyotiṣa manuscript preview

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Phalita Jyotiṣa

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The manuscript belongs to the tradition of Jyotiṣa (Indian astrology) and deals primarily with astrological prognostication (Phalita Jyotiṣa). The extant text discusses t...