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Abhyudayikaśrāddhaprayoga manuscript preview University of Pennsylvania

1922 Vikrama Saṃvat (1865 CE)

Abhyudayikaśrāddhaprayoga

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Abhyudayikaśrāddhaprayoga is a priest manual for performing funerary rituals and making offerings to ancestors. This Ms. is written in 7 lines per folio. Cover page is...

Kāśīmr̥ta Mokṣa Nirṇaya manuscript preview TUCL

Saṃvat 1933 (1876 ce.)

Kāśīmr̥ta Mokṣa Nirṇaya

EAP1023/15/6

This describes how a person who dies in Kāśī achieves instant liberation. The author is Sureśvarācharya, the manuscript is dated 1933 Vikram Saṃvat/1876 ce.

Kāmaratna manuscript preview Aksheswara Mahavira

Nepala Saṃvat - 949 (?) (1828 ce.)

Kāmaratna

EAP1296/2/121

According to NCC this is a Tantra text on medicine, magic, enticement, poison-cure, alchemy. Some manuscripts identify the author as Pārvatīputra Nityanātha, others as Nā...

Suvarṇaprabhāsottama Sūtra manuscript preview Aksheswara Mahavira

Nepala saṃvat - 971 (1850 ce.)

Suvarṇaprabhāsottama Sūtra

EAP1296/2/115

A Mahāyāna Sūtra, said to be uttered by the Buddha on Gṛdhrakūṭaparvata at Rājagṛha, and highly revered in Mongolia (NCC). Its fundamental message teaches that the Four H...

Śāntisāra manuscript preview Aksheswara Mahavira

Śaka - 1813 (1891 ce.)

Śāntisāra

EAP1296/2/74

This is a printed copy of a Hindu ritual text. The post colophon describes the genealogy of the author as: Dinakarabhaṭṭa son of Rāmakṛṣṇabhṭṭa, son of Nārāyaṇabhṭṭa, son...

Jātakālaṅkāra manuscript preview Aksheswara Mahavira

Saṃvata 1945 (1888 ce.)

Jātakālaṅkāra

EAP1296/2/73

This is a text on astrology. It contains details about its printed version: Babu Kailesvara Singh is the owner of the building with the printing press, and owner of the s...