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Buddhist dhāraṇī saṃgraha manuscript preview

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Buddhist dhāraṇī saṃgraha

eap_67610007

The manuscript is a composite Buddhist dhāraṇī collection, consisting of multiple independent ritual sections and protective texts. The colophons mention several separate...

Vasundharākalpāvadāna manuscript preview

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Vasundharākalpāvadāna

eap_67610004

The manuscript appears to be a devotional and ritual text connected with Vasundharā, the Buddhist goddess associated with prosperity, fertility, and abundance. The title...

Fragment Misc manuscript preview

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Fragment Misc

eap_67610003

The manuscript appears to be a collection of mantras, dhāraṇīs, and ritual invocations associated with Mahāgaṇapati, Mahārudra, and Ārya Tārā. The text contains a series...

Fragment of Svayambhūpurāṇa manuscript preview

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Fragment of Svayambhūpurāṇa

eap_67610002

The manuscript deals with the religious merit and sanctity of various sacred places and may be classified as a Tīrtha-māhātmya text. The extant passage describes a series...

Bālmīkīya-rāmāyaṇa (Yuddhakāṇḍa) manuscript preview

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Bālmīkīya-rāmāyaṇa (Yuddhakāṇḍa)

eap_79021118

The Yuddhakāṇḍa, also known as the Laṅkākāṇḍa, is the sixth kāṇḍa of the Bālmīkīya-rāmāyaṇa. This kāṇḍa composing the climax of the epic. It describes the final conflict...

Śrīmahālakṣmī-saṃkṣipta-nyāsavidhi manuscript preview

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Śrīmahālakṣmī-saṃkṣipta-nyāsavidhi

eap_79021117

Śrīmahālakṣmī-saṃkṣipta-nyāsavidhi is performed in the worship of Śrīmahālakṣmī to awaken the divine energy in the body. It establishes the consciousness of the Goddess w...

Pratyaṅgirāstavarāja manuscript preview

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Pratyaṅgirāstavarāja

eap_79021116

Pratyaṅgirāstavarāja is an extremely powerful hymn dedicated to Goddess Pratyaṅgirā. It neutralizes the negative effects of enemy obstacles, black magic and witchcraft. T...

Gaṇeśāṣṭaka manuscript preview

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Gaṇeśāṣṭaka

eap_79021115

Gaṇeśāṣṭaka is a stotra type text where eight slokas are given. All slokas dedicated to the lord Ganesh. The text is the part of Gaṇeṣa-purāṇa (upāsanā-khaṇḍa).

Yogasūtra manuscript preview

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Yogasūtra

eap_79021114

Yogasūtrabhāṣya is the most authoritative and foundational commentary on Patanjali's Yogasūtra. This commentary often considered essential for understanding the text's or...

Īṣāvāsyopaniṣad manuscript preview

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Īṣāvāsyopaniṣad

eap_79021113

Īṣāvāsyopaniṣad also known as Īṣopaniṣad and Vājasaneyi-saṁhitā-upaniṣad. This is one of the shortest upaniṣads which is a part of Śukla-yajurveda. It is associated with...

Saṁgrahalāhnipacīsī manuscript preview

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Saṁgrahalāhnipacīsī

eap_79021112

Saṁgrahalāhnipacīsī is the astrological text. Śrīlāhnidatta is the author of the text. In this text twenty-five things are there where zodiac sign, dates, lunar days and...

Triṁśacchlokī manuscript preview

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Triṁśacchlokī

eap_79021111

The authorship of Triṁśacchlokī is often attributed to Bopadeva. In this work thirty verses are there. In the context of Hindu ritualistic literature this text is created...