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Sārasvati manuscript preview

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Sārasvati

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Sārasvatavyākaraṇa, traditionally attributed to Anubhūtisvarūpācārya, is a concise treatise on Sanskrit grammar intended for elementary instruction. The extant portion co...

Rugviniścaya manuscript preview

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Rugviniścaya

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Rugviniścaya (Mādhavanidāna) is a celebrated Ayurvedic treatise on pathology and diagnosis composed by Mādhavakara, son of Indukara. The extant portion contains sections...

Āyurveda (Cikitsā and Nidāna) manuscript preview

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Āyurveda (Cikitsā and Nidāna)

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An anonymous Ayurvedic medical compendium beginning with an invocation to Lord Dhanvantari. The manuscript contains prescriptions and therapeutic procedures for poisoning...

Āyurveda (Cikitsā) manuscript preview

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Āyurveda (Cikitsā)

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The manuscript is an Ayurvedic medical compendium dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases. The extant portions contain sections on Ajīrṇacikitsā (tre...

Kuśopadeśanītisāra manuscript preview

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Kuśopadeśanītisāra

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The manuscript contains a collection of didactic verses grouped under the title Kuśopadeśanītisāra. The extant portions include sections entitled Sugrīvāṣṭaka, Tārādevyāṣ...

Buddhist Tantric Pūjāvidhi manuscript preview

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Buddhist Tantric Pūjāvidhi

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The manuscript opens with the invocation "Oṃ namaḥ Śrīmañjunāthāya" and contains a series of ritual sections concerned with the worship of various deities and protective...

Sucandra Gṛhapati Kathā manuscript preview

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Sucandra Gṛhapati Kathā

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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

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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

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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...

Gaṇeśa-stotra-pāṭha manuscript preview

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Gaṇeśa-stotra-pāṭha

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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...