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Last time’s donations were critical help in saving my Srinagar Center – as load shedding had become so bad that ppl didnt have electricity for more than 2 hours a day.

Themes of this Almira were the same boring Dharma Shastra and Karma Kanda. Some Agamic Titles were also were there.

In order to get to doing more exciting work, we have decided to skipped Almira 19 ( we have been following descending numeric order ) and move straight to Almira-1 which is all Vyakrana(Grammer) and our next Issue you will get to see a whole Almira of Sanskrit Grammar Texts.

Yoga Sutra Vyakhya

Hath Pradeepika

Hath Pradeepika Hindi Tika

Thanks to Sunila Raina Rajanak ji, he got us in touch with a Srinagar Antique Dealer who had three Manuscripts 2 in Persian and One In Sharada that he has donated to us for a small fee. They are as below:

Multiple Persian Texts on Hindu Themes most likely by a Kashmiri Pandit with the First One being OmNameh ( Literally Book of Aum )

Few Pages had Sharada and its Persian Translation as well. Decoding of all text Names awaited

The famous Gulistaan( The Garden )  of Saadi

Durga Mahatmya Set of Texts in Sharada

55 Sharada Manuscripts we had digitized quite a while ago we have now finally moved it to archives.org

Vieawable at:

The Entire Catalog is here:

Some noteworthy items were:

Kalpa Vriksha an unpublished Text of Sahib Kaul:

A Vernacular Kashmirian Commentary on Amara Kosha:

A Lal Vakh Text:

According to Scholar C. Tompkins – there are less than a dozen Lal Manuscripts in the World so this one is a welcome addition to Public Memory.

Thanks once again to Kashmir’s brightest Archaeologst and Archivist Mind Mohd Shafi Zahid Sahib, and Peerzadeh Sahib for there warm welcome in the partial scanning work they allowed us to conduct. More scanning soon.

Manuscripts Tour in Punjab/HP:

I made some searches of manuscripts in Punjab and in HP for Swami Amrit Vagbhav’s books, tours and findings are readable below:

Solan, HP

VVRI Hoshiarpur

Punjab University, Chandigarh

DAV College, Chandigarh

Thanks to Shri Shankarji Jha ( Punjab Uni) and Prof. Surinder Mishraji (Kurukshetra Uni) and Davinder Singhji(Panjab Digital Library), we were able to acquire 274 digital scans of Manuscripts from Kurukshetra University – done a decade or so ago by PDL.

29 odd mauscripts in Arabic/Persian are still not uploaded as I am looking for a Volunteer for Naming – Volunteers Sought.

Scriptwise Arrangement:

Sharada ( 90 Manuscripts )

Devanagari ( 99 Manuscripts )

Gurumukhi ( 56 Scans )

249 eBooks digitized from the Archives of Kashmir Research Institute

This small booklet on Kashmiran Rituals:

and a Persian Mahabharat were

some interesting items

Our Trust Member Shri Narinder Sharma has filed several RTIs to different Govt Bodies for extracting  out crucial Data regarding Manuscripts.

Following is the first one from IGNCA for which we have got a response.

Other 7-8 Organizations we haven’t heard from yet.

I was able to utilize some spare time this month in cataloging uncatalogued Skt Manusctipts in Oriental Records Room, National Archives. This catalog that I have prepared can be seen below:

Thanks once again to Faizan Sahib, Mohd. Asgar Sahib and Muzaffar-e-Islam Sahib, the Custodians of Oriental Record Room who helped me in this.