This Issue of my Newsletter is dedicated to Prof. Ashok Aklujkar, Vancouver, Canada who was the Highest Donor of my Last Fund Raiser that helped me tremendously. Unfortunate though, I wouldn’t have the honor of meeting him at the World Sanskrit Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia Prof’s City of Residence  as planned because not just that the Canadian Visa Process is time consuming, the financial drain I am not currently in the position to handle.

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My original almira counts has been descending but after Almira 20, I decided to switch to Almira 1 and 2 directly owing to more interesting subjects like Grammar and Literature.

Total 510 Items were digitized.

Almira 1 and Shelf-1 of Almira 2 represented Sankrit Vyakarana(Grammar) wholly.

Almira 2 consists of Literature, Drama, Poetry, Rhetorics/Figures( Alankar Shastra ) and Lexicography

All 510 Items are viewable below:

Bulkier Manuscripts that cannot be scanned by our Regular Scanner, we use our DSLR Camera that is provided by a generous grant from the Endangered Archives, British Library.

These Large Size A-3+ Tomes can be viewed below:

This other Text Nalodaya from Fort William College is possibly similarly Old except that no year is mentioned:

https://archive.org/details/NalodayaInFourVolumesWithSubodhiniByKalidasFortWilliamCollege

Thanks to eGangotri Trust Member and Chandigarh Coordinator, Shri Vinod Razdan Sahib, who told us about Jammu Based Writer Shri P.R. Raina who was given temporary custody of 3 very important and supremely rare documents, we have been able to digitize these and present them to the Lovers of Learning:

This first is in Sw. Vidyadhar’s Handwriting has a Stuti of Shaivaharya Swami Ram, a Gauri Stuti/Dashak and a Maha Kalika Stuti:

This Second is a Printed Publication of the above and other Rare Stotras possibly only in circulation in Kashmir:

Also notable is the Name and address of the Publishing Institution – surely defunct by now:

This last is a Sharada Manuscript with Bhavani Sahasranama and some other Texts:

Shri Svadhyaya Magazines of Swami Amrit Vagbhavacharya :

Readers of our Past editions will be familiar with our pursuit of Swami Amrit Vagbhav’s Works – the Channelist and Mystic and Guru of Ballajin Nath Pandit and grand-Guru by that route of my good friend Victoria the Russian Indologist.

We think we have almost everything of Swamiji – except the Tri-Quarterly that Swamiji was publishing from Solan under the patronage of the Maharaja of Baghat, HP – the Sri Svadhayaya. The first Issue was published in 1942 ( 1998 V.E). I came to know of there existence through the writings of B.N. Panditji and they had been elusive all these years

Thanks profusely to the large heartedness of his Disciple Dharmendra Mishra-ji, Bharatpur who preserved most of the Issues over its 16 years of publication, and then just handed us without any monetary expectation or otherwise.

This is the First Edition of Sri Svadhyaya:

All Other Issues can be seen below:

Initially I had wrongly imagined, Sri Svadhyaya to be a exclusive Kashmir Shaivite Magazine and I also wanted to give it recognition  as the predecessor of the “Kashmir Shaiva Research Papers” in being the first magazine devoted to this Subject but Sri Svadhyaya is first a Jyotish Magazine and Swamiji is actually mentioned only as the Founder and Shri Har Dev Trivediji ( Jyotish Expert ) is the editor – whose son and family I had the good fortune to meet personally at there residence in Solan earlier this year. But many good articles on Kashmir Shaivism and writings of both Swamiji and Ballajin Nath Pandit can be found here. After Swamiji abandoned Sri Svadhyaya, Trivedijis family continued with another magazine called Jyotishmati which is still in publication.

Thanks to Dharmendra Mishraji once again, his cousin Phanindra Mishraji who first called me to say that 2-3 volumes of that magazine had surfaced on cleaning.

I had only gone to Bharatpur to pick these 2-3 Volumes when we thought despite our last unsuccessful trip to Dharmendraji and denials, it would be harmless to just give a blind shot with miraculous results.

I pay homage to Late Samvit Prakash Dhar Sahib who was the only Living Disciple of High Mystical Attainments of Swami Lakshman Joo that I had the fortune to meet – thanks to Larry Small of Bangkok who did the first introductions.

Dhar Sahib showered me with love and affection and introduced me to Swami Lakkshman of the Udasin Sect in Rishikesh. It was Dhar Sahib who encouraged me to go to Srinagar for the First Time to Swamijis Ashram. After his passing away his family donated there books to Ishwar Ashram Trust, New Delhi and we digitized them some of them very important works.

All of Late Samvit Dhar Sahib’s Books are viewable below:

This is a Photocopy of Swamiji’s Hindi Tika on Ishvar Pratyabhijna:

Guruji Navjivan Rastogi verified that he has not known any such text.

This is the Ishvar Pratyabhijna Vivritti in Sharada in impressive hand-writing

100 Over Texts at Ishwar Ashram that we had missed before were also digitized:

Some important ones were:

Few Pages of  Sharada Scribblings:

A Photocopy of a Register of Acharya Rameshwar Jha’s Sanskrit Writings !

Bhagvata Gita in Urdu by Pitambar Nath Tikku:

Many Texts of KSTS etc have been scanned only because they had profuse hand written notes in Urdu, English and Hindi and we wanted to preserve the notes as some kind of a reading that could be of potential worth.

Profuse thanks to the Munshi Brothers ( Dr. Anusheel and Devender ) that made this possible.

Dont want to fail to note that many texts have hand-written notes of Swamiji and this one dedicated to Dhar Sahib is very cute as it is a Yamaka on Dhar Sahib’s Given Name Samvit :

176 Texts from Kashmir Research Institutue have been digitized.

Noteworthy are:

Musicological Text Unidentifiable Title or Author Name