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Ajirṇamañjarī manuscript preview

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Ajirṇamañjarī

eap_79005047

This is an Ayurvedic text on medicinal properties, Ajirṇamañjarī attributed to Kāśīnātha or Kāśīrāja.This text describes the medicinal properties of different fruits such...

Mādhava Nidāna manuscript preview

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Mādhava Nidāna

eap_79005044

This is an Ayurveda text Mādhava Rugviniścaya or Gadaviniścaya or Nidāna by Mādhavakara around the 7th century, son of Indukara or Candrakara. The text is one of the most...

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...

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 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...

Fragment of Malla Vaṃśāvali manuscript preview

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Fragment of Malla Vaṃśāvali

eap_79003036

This is a narrative text of Malla dynasty of Nepal. The text describes the lineage of malla king Aridevmalla (22) - his son Mallapadipaka- his son Abhayamalla (19)- and h...

Lakṣacaityayākathā manuscript preview

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Lakṣacaityayākathā

eap_79003027

This is a Buddhist ritual text Lakṣacaityayākathā, Lakṣa means Lakh and caityas means stupas, It describes creation of a hundred thousand miniature stupas. Such acts are...

Pūjā vidhi manuscript preview

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Pūjā vidhi

eap_79003020

This is a Buddhist ritual text on pūjā vidhi of Vajrasattva. The text reffers a purification practice that involves visualizing vajrasattva, generating regret for negetiv...

Fragment Medical manuscript preview

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Fragment Medical

eap_79003015

This is a Medical fragment text. The text is Heavily damaged so it's cant determined its main part of the text or authors name, any kind of history of the text. There are...