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Kāraṇḍavyūha Sutra manuscript preview

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Kāraṇḍavyūha Sutra

eap_67614015

The manuscript has wooden plain cover and the folios filled with beautiful and calculated letters. The Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra is an influential Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture ce...

Śri Lalitvistaranāma Mahāyāna Sutra manuscript preview

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Śri Lalitvistaranāma Mahāyāna Sutra

eap_67614014

The manuscript is started to write on NS 802 (1681) and completed in one year. It has the wooden cover and seems offered sacred thread to the scripture. The Lalitavistara...

Pañcarakṣā Sutra manuscript preview

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Pañcarakṣā Sutra

eap_67614013

It has a wooden cover for the manuscript. Couple of folios are damaged badly. Newly written folios in normal paper replacing the original one. last folio is damaged due t...

Gṛhamātṛka Dhāraṇī manuscript preview

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Gṛhamātṛka Dhāraṇī

eap_67614011

The manuscript seems not complete but the description mentions about the protection from different terrestrial elements like the poisonous animals to extra-terrestrial el...

Ārya Aparimitāyunāma Dhāraṇī manuscript preview

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Ārya Aparimitāyunāma Dhāraṇī

eap_67614010

The manuscript deals about the dharani of the Aparimita for the long life of an individual. The particular dharani is still in practice in Nepal mandala. The details of t...

Saptavāra Dhāraṇī manuscript preview

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Saptavāra Dhāraṇī

eap_67614009

Given the name of different Dhāraṇi recitited in a week. Vasudhara recitation in Sunday, Vajrabidaranhridayam in Monday, Ganapati in Tuesday, Usnisavijaya in Wednesday, P...

Ārya Dvajāṇgrahekeyuroṇāma Dhāraṇī manuscript preview

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Ārya Dvajāṇgrahekeyuroṇāma Dhāraṇī

eap_67614008

The folio used are of either white or yellow. It started in usual buddhist sutra formula. It started with the veneration to Buddha and Bodhisattvas. The basic concept of...

Collection of Dhāraṇi manuscript preview

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Collection of Dhāraṇi

eap_67614007

The manuscript collected different Dhāraṇis in practices and red ink is also used in multiple sections. The dharani included of Vajrasattva, Sitavati, Kankirna, Mahisasam...

Namoyānasularavanakṣa manuscript preview

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Namoyānasularavanakṣa

eap_67614006

The manuscript has multiple miniature paintings. It started with the exaltation of Gaṇeśa. Each of the folios here consist of miniature painting of different creature lik...

Ugracaṇḍeśvarītantre Mohinīśvarasaṃvāda manuscript preview

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Ugracaṇḍeśvarītantre Mohinīśvarasaṃvāda

eap_67602008

The manuscript starts with siddhivetāla devyai namaḥ . Different types of diagrams remain in the text. Last two or three folios speak about guru ājñā .The name of the see...

Ᾱryatārābhaṭṭārikāyā nāmāṣṭottaraśatakam manuscript preview

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Ᾱryatārābhaṭṭārikāyā nāmāṣṭottaraśatakam

eap_67602004

– In Colophon is written – iti Ᾱryatārabhaktārikāyā nāmāṣṭottaraśatakam Buddhabhāṣita parisamāpta. Probably due to local pronunciation the title of the text is misspelt.T...