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Ekādaśī - Dvādaśī Māhātmya manuscript preview

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Ekādaśī - Dvādaśī Māhātmya

eap_79021088

This is a composite manuscript over two section, Ekādaśī Māhātmya from Bhabiśya Purāṇa and Dvādaśī Māhātmya from Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra. Both two text had in convarsation...

Dūrgāsaptaśati manuscript preview

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Dūrgāsaptaśati

eap_79021084

The Dūrgāsaptaśati (also known as the Devī Māhātmya or Caṇḍī Pāṭha) is one of the most sacred and revered texts particularly within the Śākta tradition. It is found withi...

Naiṣadhīyacarita manuscript preview

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Naiṣadhīyacarita

eap_79021068

The Naiṣadhiyacaritam, composed by the 12th-century poet Śrīharṣa, son of Śrīhīra and Māmalladevī. It is included among the best five Mahākāvyas according to tradition. T...

Adhyātmya Rāmāyaṇa manuscript preview

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Adhyātmya Rāmāyaṇa

eap_79021064

The Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa is a highly influential spiritual and philosophical retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa. It follows basic plot of Vālmīki’s epic. The text is structured as a...

Rāmāyaṇa (Kiṣkindhā kāṇḍa) manuscript preview

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Rāmāyaṇa (Kiṣkindhā kāṇḍa)

eap_79021056

This is a great epic Rāmāyaṇa attributed to Vālmīki. It has seven chapters, in which the work contains the fifth chapter Kiṣkindhā Kāṇḍa. The Kiṣkindhā Kāṇḍa covers the a...

Rāmāyaṇa (Ayodhyākāṇḍa) manuscript preview

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Rāmāyaṇa (Ayodhyākāṇḍa)

eap_79021048

The second chapter of the epic Rāmāyaṇa by Vālmīki contains many major episodes of the story. It begins with a heroic description of Rāma and continues through his depart...

Pūjā Vidhi manuscript preview

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Pūjā Vidhi

eap_79019007

The manuscript contains Vidhi Mantras, which are prescriptive ritual mantra used in religious ceremonies. These mantras outline the correct invocations, and ritual action...

Svayaṃbhu Purāṇa manuscript preview

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Svayaṃbhu Purāṇa

eap_79019006

Svayaṃbhu Purāṇa is a Buddhist Puranic text. This text is well known among Newari Mahāyāna society. It has Puranic chronicles and legends of Kathmandu vally. The Svayambh...

Karaṇḍavyuha Sūtra manuscript preview

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Karaṇḍavyuha Sūtra

eap_79019005

The Kāraṇḍavyūha is an early Mantrayāna sūtra and the source of the famous mantra Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ. This sūtra holds particular significance, as the mantra has become ce...

Homa kriyā, stavana, vidhi manuscript preview

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Homa kriyā, stavana, vidhi

eap_79019004

The manuscript contains stotra, some vidhi mantra of Buddhism.The manuscript consists homakriya(Fire ritual text) (f.1a –12b) and (f.23b–34a), Stavana seems to be related...

Vidhi manuscript preview

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Vidhi

eap_79019001

The manuscript contains Vidhi Mantras, which seems to used in tantric ceremonies. From (f.7a) of the manuscript has different handwriting. (f.7a) represents some Vidhi an...