eGangotri 26: Our First Fund Raiser Campaign. Almira 23 Completed. eGangotri joins hands with Kashmir Research Institute, Srinagar.Koshur Seminar in Pune

On By eGangotri Digital Preservation TrustIn eGangotri
FundRaiser:
 
Thanks to Shri Rakesh Kaul of The Last Queen of Kashmir Fame to suggest me to crowdfund my Project through this my First Fund Raiser.
This is the Link for making donations. Do contribute if you feel strongly for the democratization of Information.
Almira 23 (Jammu) Completed:
 
All Almira 23 Manuscripts chiefly Vedic in content are now available for viewing:
( owing to a oversight, this issues’ texts were not tagged with eGangotri-26 and the Old Tag remained, hence they have got clubbed with eGangotri-25 Texts, hence the discrepancy )
One Manuscript Shatpath Brahmin 5148 owing to its size, needed Camera-Scanning and is viewable separately at our Facebook Page:

High-End TIFF Images of these are also available but will only be uploaded later when I have sufficient band-width in a dedicated Account possibly instagram or flickr.
Tie up with Kashmir Research Institute, Srinagar:
eGangotri and the Kashmir Research Institute, Srinagar are now Digital Partners. With over 60,000 Printed Texts at the premises, we hope to be busy for a long, long time.
 
A few random pictures from the Collection (333 images) that we took are viewable below:
51 Texts that we digitized in our 1st Month can be viewed at:
11 Texts are pre-19th Century
16 are in Urdu Script ( including a partial text in Persian of the Shahnama of Ranjit Singh )
This one is a Devanagari Manuscript a Hindi Prose Translation of Katha Sarit Sagar by Unmentioned Translator:
These two are Urdu Magazines from Karachi:
Other Interesting Titles:
History of Kishtwar District in Urdu
Shiv Puran in Urdu and Sanskrit:
Yoga Vasihtha 1904 Urdu
Mahabharat Partial Urdu
Ramayan Urdu :
Following 3 Texts are publications of Keshava Bhatta Kashmiri – a Srinagar Native – whose texts are now very difficult to find and these ones were definitely a wind-fall.
Vedic Mantra Kalpa Lata
Mekhala Pustaka
After sharing the above, an American Professor digitized for us his two Volumes of Keshava Bhattas Text he had acquired in mint-new condition in Srinagar of the 70s:
Karma Kanda of Keshav Bhatta

Mantratmak Karma Kanda
Around a dozen of his 70s acquisitions of Keshava Bhatta Publications, he has promised to digitally share with me in the near Future.
This Yoga Vasishtha Style Prose Meditation ‘Pakshapata Rahit Anubhava Prakash’ by the famous mystic Kali Kamali Baba came as a total surprise:
Swami Amrit Vagbhav on Archive.org
I had opportunity to move our previous Work on Swami Amrit Vagbhav Maharaj from scribd to archive.org at the following for more convenient access:
Koshur Workshop, Pune Conducted by Stanford Scholar Radhika Koul
Kids between 10 and 18 who intend to learn the Kashmiri Language and are in Delhi between Aug 13 and Sept 12, are in great luck as Stanford Comparative Literature Scholar Sushri Radhika Koul will be in town for a Koshur Language Workshop conducted after-school-hours/weekends, details below:

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