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Śārṅgadhara Saṃhitā manuscript preview

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Śārṅgadhara Saṃhitā

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This manuscript contains portions of the Śārṅgadharasāra-saṃgraha (Śārṅgadhara-saṃhitā), an important compendium of Ayurveda composed by Ācārya Śārṅgadhara, the son of Dā...

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...

Bhāsvatī-sūtra manuscript preview

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Bhāsvatī-sūtra

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The manuscript contains the Bhāsvatīkaraṇa, an astronomical treatise belonging to the tradition of Indian Siddhānta astronomy. The opening verses attribute the work to Sa...

Tantric mantras manuscript preview

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Tantric mantras

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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...

Buddhist Stotra manuscript preview

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Buddhist Stotra

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The manuscript appears to be a Buddhist devotional text combining hymnic praise, religious instruction, and descriptions of meritorious acts. One extant passage opens wit...

Svāyambhu Mahāpurāṇa manuscript preview

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Svāyambhu Mahāpurāṇa

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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...