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Rasaratna, Nāḍīprakāśa, Nāḍīparīkṣā, Nāḍīparīkṣā, Kāmaśāstra, Paribhāṣānirūpaṇa, Paribhāṣāḥ, Rasamañjarī
ark:/12148/btv1b100825606 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Bengali
A composite manuscript, it contains Rasaratna; Nāḍīprakāśa, by Śaṅkarasena. Two copies ; Nāḍīpārīkṣā, by Mandhara (?); Nāḍīparīkṣā, by Govinda; Kāmaśāstra; Paribhāṣānirūpaṇa. Two copies ; Paribhāṣāḥ by Gopīmohanadāsa; Rasamañjarī, by Śālinātha, son of Vaidyanātha.
Tripurāsārasamuccaya-ṭīkā
ark:/12148/btv1b10082797b Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Newari
An incomplete text on Śaiva-Tantra with commentary by Nāgabhaṭṭa. The text salutes Maheśvaratejānandanātha in 10 Paṭalas. This manuscript has only 8 Paṭalas.
Vajrasattvapārājikā.
ark:/12148/btv1b100824652 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
It is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana, Mantrayana/Vajrayana Buddhist traditions. Vajrasatva is the esoteric aspect of the bodhisattva Samantabhadra and is commonly associated with the student practitioner who through the master's teachings, attains an ever-enriching subtle and rarefied grounding in their esoteric practice. In Tibetan Buddhism Vajrasatva is associated with the sambhogakāya and purification practice.There are four parajikas (sexual intercourse, theft, murder, claim about non obtained realisations). There are 4 parajika.Refrain from having sexual intercourse, Refrain from stealing,Refrain from commiting murder,Refrain from claiming attainments of stages of pure mental concentration that have not been achieved. this describe Prāyaścitta vidhi .
Mahābhārata Araṇyaparva
ark:/12148/btv1b100832038 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Bengali
It is the third of eighteen parvas.The parva is a chronicle of the twelve-year journey of the Pandavas in a forest, where they learn life lessons and build character.Vana Parva contains discourses on virtues and ethics; myths of Arjuna, Yudhishthara, and Bhima; and the tales of "Nahusha the Snake and Yudhishthira" and "Ushinara and the Hawk". It also includes the love stories of "Nala and Damayanti" and "Savitri and Satyavan" . The Araṇyaparva sub parva are Aranyaka Parva,Kirmira-vadha Parva,Arjunabhigamana Parva,Kairata Parva, Indralokagamana Parva,Nalopakhyana Parva,Tirtha-yatra Parva ,Yaksha-yudha Parva, Nivata-kavacha-yudha Parva,Ajagara Parva,Markandeya-Samasya Parva,Draupadi-Satyabhama Samvada Parva,Ghosha-yatra Parva s and so on .
Brahmavaivartapurāṇa
ark:/12148/btv1b10082817d Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Bengali
This is the Sanskrit text and a major Purana Mahapurana of Hinduism.It is an important Vaishnavism text. This Purana majorly centers around the Hindu deities Radha and Krishna.The text is notable for identifying Krishna as the supreme reality and asserting that all gods such as Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma, Ganesha are one and the same and in fact, all are the incarnations of Krishna.[6] Goddesses like Radha, Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati and Savitri are asserted to be equivalent and are mentioned as the incarnations of Prakruti in this text, with legends similar to those found in the Devi-Bhagavata Purana and the Devi Mahatmya. The text is also notable for glorifying the feminine aspect of god through Radha and its egalitarian views that all women are manifestations of the divine female, co-creators of the universe, and that any insult to a woman is an insult to goddess Radha.This text is mostly legends, worship, mythology and drama during the life of Radha and Krishna, with discussion of ethics, dharma, four stages of life and festivals embedded as part of the plot.this is a bhakti text oriented towards a mystical experience, and that this text.
Kāśīkhaṇḍa
ark:/12148/btv1b10083211s Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Bengali
This Kāśīkhaṇḍa is a part of Skandapurāṇa.Kashi Khand , a section of Skanda Mahapuran in which there is a detailed description of the introduction, greatness of Kashi and its divine nature. Kashi is also known as Anandvan and Varanasi. Lord Vishwanath himself had once narrated the story of its glory to Goddess Parvati, which was heard by his son Kartikeya (Skanda) while sitting in his mother's lap. Kartikeya later narrated the same glory to sage Agastya and the same story is described in Kashikhand under Skandpuran. In three sub Khaṇḍa is divided. The Skanda Purāṇa is the largest Mukhyapurana, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts.The text has been an important historical record and influence on the Hindu traditions and rituals related to the war-god Skanda.
Bhāgavatapurāṇa
ark:/12148/btv1b10082833f Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Bengali
Bhagavata, is one of Hinduism's eighteen great Puranas (Mahapuranas). Composed in Sanskrit and traditionally attributed to Veda Vyasa, it promotes bhakti (devotion) towards Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu, integrating themes from the Advaita (monism) philosophy of Adi Shankara. This manuscript is with commentary on Purāṇa.
Vajrasūcī.
ark:/12148/btv1b10082953n Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
The Vajrasūcī Upaniṣad is an important Sanskrit text and an Upanishad of Hinduism. It is classified as one of the 22 Samanya (general) Upanishads, and identified as a Vedanta text. It is attached to the Samaveda.It contends that a person does not become a Brahmana or Kshatriya by birth. The soul is pure and without attributes. Therefore, it has no caste.The subtle body also has no caste because it is the same mind, the same breath and the same intelligence, the tattvas, which are active in all.
Ratnāvadānamālā.
ark:/12148/btv1b100825284 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
Avadāna is the name given to a type of Buddhist literature correlating past lives' virtuous deeds to subsequent lives' events.described them as "stories, usually narrated by the Buddha, that illustrate the workings of karma by revealing the acts of a particular individual in a previous life and the results of those actions in his or her present life In this manuscript the various stories are described .
Nirukta
ark:/12148/btv1b100831692 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
Nirukta is one of the six ancient Vedangas, or ancillary science connected with the Vedas the scriptures of Hinduism. Nirukta covers etymology, and is the study concerned with correct interpretation of Sanskrit words in the Vedas.The study of Nirukta has been closely related to the ancillary Vedic science of Vyakarana, but they have a different focus. Vyakarana deals with linguistic analysis to establish the exact form of words to properly express ideas, while Nirukta focuses on linguistic analysis to help establish the proper meaning of the words.This is sixth Adhyāya.
Bhūmikhaṇḍa
ark:/12148/btv1b100830954 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Bengali
This Bhūmikhaṇḍa is from Padma Pūrāṇa. Padma Pūrāṇa is one of the eighteen Major Pūrāṇas, a genre of texts in Hinduism. It is an encyclopedic text, named after the lotus in which creator god Brahma appeared, and includes large sections dedicated to Vishnu, as well as significant sections on Shiva and Shakti.The text includes sections on cosmology, mythology, genealogy, geography, rivers and seasons, temples and pilgrimage to numerous sites in India The Bengal recension consists of Five Khandas (Sections) Shrishti Khanda, Bhumi Khanda, Svarga Khanda, Patala Khanda and Uttara KhandaThe second part of the text is called Bhumikhanda, and is largely a book of legends woven into a pilgrimage guide. The third part of the text, called Svargakhanda, presents Cosmology, geography of India, its rivers and description of places.
Ṛgveda
ark:/12148/btv1b53187201k Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanagari
R̥gveda is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas). It is one of the four sacred canonical Hindu texts (śruti) known as the Vedas.The Rigveda is the oldest known Vedic Sanskrit text.The Rigveda Samhita is the core text and is having 10 maṇḍalas with 1,028 sūktas.The main god of the Rigveda is Indra, who is often depicted as a warrior god. The other chief god during the Rig Vedic age was Varuna, who was later replaced by Indra. In vedic tradition he worshiping gords is nature. Agni, Vāyu, Pr̥thvi. in r̥ugveda Agni is the important deity after Indra. R̥ugveda strats with Agni sūkta. In this manuseript the another sūkta is with Padapātha (vedic chant)