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Sati Devi Mahadeva Vivaha manuscript preview

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Sati Devi Mahadeva Vivaha

eap_79004014

This manuscript appears to be a poriton of a larger narrative text on the story of Shiva's wedding with Sati. The repeated references to Mahadeva, Daksha Prajapati and Sa...

Graha Pratishtha Vidhi manuscript preview

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Graha Pratishtha Vidhi

eap_79004012

This is an incomplete manuscript that focuses on rituals for house consecration i.e. graha sthapana. It provides a detailed procedure including various tantric mantras, o...

Chanakya Sara Samgraha manuscript preview

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Chanakya Sara Samgraha

eap_79004011

This is an incomplete manuscript of a text named 'Chanakya Sara Samgraha', which is evident from the colophon. The present manuscript contains two sections of 100 verses...

Krishna Bhajana manuscript preview

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Krishna Bhajana

eap_79004008

This is a stotra devoted to Krishna, which becomes clear by the mention of Krishna in the first folio as well as of motifs associated with him such as Vrindavana. The sto...

Unknown drama on Ramayana manuscript preview

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Unknown drama on Ramayana

eap_79004007

This is a composite manuscript which primarily constitutes a play that Thapa has named 'Raghuvira Shighra Gamana Katha'. The first folio mentions the end of the twenty-fi...

Unknown fragment manuscript preview

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Unknown fragment

eap_79004006

The contents of the manuscript are illegible, due to which Thapa has also titled it 'unknown'. It is an incomplete manuscript, the scribe seems to have known both Devanag...

Vetalakatha manuscript preview

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Vetalakatha

eap_79004005

This is also an incomplete Vetalakatha manuscript, which starts with the fourteenth story. The condition of the manuscript is very damaged with no pagination. Letters are...

Vetalakatha manuscript preview

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Vetalakatha

eap_79004004

This is an incomplete composite manuscript. The scribe uses a mixed Devanagari and Newari script. Contrary to the title given by Thapa, this manuscript is actually Vetala...

Arya Karanda Vyuha Mahayana Sutra manuscript preview

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Arya Karanda Vyuha Mahayana Sutra

eap_79004001

This is one of the nine Mahāyāna Vaipulyas Sūtras of eminence in Newār Buddhism. The central theme of the sutra is the compassion of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara