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Saṅkalpa Śrāddha Vidhi manuscript preview TUCL

Śaka 1720 (1798 ce.)

Saṅkalpa Śrāddha Vidhi

EAP1023/15/4

A manual for the performance of the śrāddha ceremony for ancestors without ‘piṇḍa’ (rice balls)

Lakṣavarttī Māhātmya manuscript preview TUCL

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Lakṣavarttī Māhātmya

EAP1023/15/3

This tells the story underlying the Lakṣavarttī ritual which women perform by lighting wicks for 1,00,000 lamps.

Jīvanmuktaniścayayoga manuscript preview TUCL

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Jīvanmuktaniścayayoga

EAP1023/15/2

In this 11th chapter of the sixth book of the Yogavāsiṣṭha, ‘Nirvāṇa Prakaraṇa’, Vāsiṣṭha explains to Rāma he may attain ‘liberation while living’ without renouncing the...

Paryantārādhanā manuscript preview Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Paryantārādhanā

ark:/12148/btv1b531482543

A Jaina treatise on living beings, ‘expiatory observances on one’s death-bed’ (NCC) and death by fasting, with a Sanskrit commentary (ārādhanā-prakaraṇa) by Somasūri.

Gurvāvalī manuscript preview Bibliothèque nationale de France

Saṃvat 1480 (1423 ce)

Gurvāvalī

ark:/12148/btv1b53148260q

This work gives a list of Jaina teachers who succeeded each other. It was composed by Munisundara Sūri (1380–1447), who was from Tapāgaccha, and a disciple of Somasundara...