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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...
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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...
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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...
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Kāmaśāstra
eap_10231035
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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Ṣoḍaśa-daśāyāka-parīkṣā
eap_10231027
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...
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Phalita Jyotiṣa
eap_10231026
The manuscript belongs to the tradition of Jyotiṣa (Indian astrology) and deals primarily with astrological prognostication (Phalita Jyotiṣa). The extant text discusses t...