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Bagalāmukhī Dīpadāna manuscript preview

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Bagalāmukhī Dīpadāna

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The Bagalāmukhī Dīpadāna is a Tantric ritual manual focused on the offering of lamps (Dīpadāna) to the goddess Bagalāmukhī. Bagalāmukhī is the eighth of the ten Mahāvidyā...

Rājavijayasaṅgraha manuscript preview

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Rājavijayasaṅgraha

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The Rājavijayasaṅgraha is a significant Sanskrit text of Rājanīti (Political Science) and Jyotiṣa (Astrology), attributed to Raṇahastin, son of Ekanātha, composed under t...

Viśvakarmavāstuśāstra manuscript preview

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Viśvakarmavāstuśāstra

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The Viśvakarmavāstuśāstra is the primary textbook of the Viśvakarmā school of architecture, it is attributed to Viśvakarmā, the divine architect of the god. The works cov...

Prauḍha Manoramā manuscript preview

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Prauḍha Manoramā

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This is a sub commentary text Prauḍha Manoramā. Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita wrote the Siddhānta Kaumudī to rearrange Pāṇini’s rules, and then wrote the Manoramā to explain the deepe...

Ratnāvalīsāra (Homaratna) manuscript preview

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Ratnāvalīsāra (Homaratna)

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The Homa Ratna is a technical ritual manual dedicated to the performance of Vedic and Tantric fire sacrifices (Homa). It is frequently attributed to Gaurīdatta Kauśika. T...

Varāha Purāṇa manuscript preview

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Varāha Purāṇa

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The Varāha Purāṇa is one of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas and is primarily a Vaiṣṇava text. It takes its name from the Varāha Avatāra (the Boar incarnation of Viṣṇu), who resc...

Guhyakāli Aṣṭottaraśatanāma manuscript preview

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Guhyakāli Aṣṭottaraśatanāma

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The Guhyakāli Aṣṭottaraśatanāma is a Tantric hymn consisting of the 108 names of Guhya Kāli. In the Nepal region particularly within the Newar Vajrayāna and Hindu Tantric...

Rāmāyaṇa (Kiṣkindhā kāṇḍa) manuscript preview

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Rāmāyaṇa (Kiṣkindhā kāṇḍa)

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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 (Laṃkākāṇḍa) manuscript preview

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Rāmāyaṇa (Laṃkākāṇḍa)

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This is a great epic Rāmāyaṇa attributed to Vālmīki. It has seven chapters, in which the work contains the last chapter Laṅkā Kāṇḍa also known as the Yuddha Kāṇḍa. This c...

Siddhānta Kaumudī manuscript preview

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Siddhānta Kaumudī

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The Siddhānta Kaumudī a sanskrit vyākaraṇa text composed by Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita in the 17th century, it revolutionized the study of Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī. The work is divided...

Venopākhyāna manuscript preview

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Venopākhyāna

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The Venopākhyāna (the episode of King Vena) is primarily located in the Padma Purāṇa, Bhūmi-khaṇḍa specifically spanning chapters 30 to 38. While the core narrative of th...

Nepāla Māhātmya manuscript preview

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Nepāla Māhātmya

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The Nepāla Māhātmya is a foundational religious and geographical text that glorifies the sacred sites, rivers, and legends of the Kathmandu Valley and its surroundings. I...