Sharada Manuscripts and Printed Books from around Kashmir. Digitizations in Feb-April 2020

My Srinagar Center keeps getting valuable tips from there neighborhood of households with old manuscripts. We are very lucky most families very kindly allow us the digitizations. Here are the few we could get hold of in between Feb-April 2020.

  1. Three Sharada Manuscripts from Kupwara, Kashmir.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Sharada+Manuscripts+found+at+Kupwara%22

2. 7 Sharada + 1 Devanagari Manuscript from Satish Bhan Residence, Sarban, Kashmir

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Residence+of+Satish+Bhat+Sarban+Kashmir%22

3. Sharada Manuscript from Baramula

https://archive.org/details/sharadamanuscriptfrombaramulla/page/n1/mode/2up

4. Sharada Manuscripts from Pulwama

https://archive.org/details/shighrabodhabykashinathbhattacharyasharadamanuscriptfrompulwama/mode/2up

5. 13 Text Composite Sharada Manuscript of  Dr. Mansoor Ahmad Yaripoora Kulgam.

Contains the following:

Swatantrya Deepika 
Bhairava Stotra
Bhakti Vilas Stotra Or Alaukiika Udvalan/Sangraha Stotra of Utpal
Yoga Sandhya
Omkar Mahatmya
Atmopalabdhi Shatika
Dev Puja
Mahartha Manjari
Vigyan Bhairava
Shiv Kavach
Guru Stotra
Ram Gita
Brahma Stuti
Some Sort of Gayatri Mantra

Gananapti Mantra Vidhi ( In end )

6. Old Printed Books from Pinzoora, Shopian

https://archive.org/details/mahimna-stotra-with-shivananda-lahari-kashmiri-translation-pt.-gopi-nath-sapru-k_50_B

These 2 Diagrams within were a hit on Twitter

This is a List of all Translations of Gopinath Sapru – sadly all lost for now:

Pages from Mahimna Stotra With Shivananda Lahari Kashmiri Translation - Pt. Gopi Nath Sapru - Kohinoor Printing Press Srinagar.jpg

If anyone knows anything about Gopinath Sapru Family Descendants then please let us know.

8. Sharada  Karma Kand Manuscript from Shopian

https://archive.org/details/karma-kand-sharada-manuscript-from-residence-of-ishfaq-sahib-shopian

Contents:

prajāvidhi-s
ṛcaka
grahaśanti
ekacakra
graheṣṭa-brāhmana
gāyatrī-brāhmana
kūṣmaṇḍa
prāyaścitta-sthānaka (Kaṭha Saṃhitā 35)
Ṛgveda and Yajurveda sūktas (navagraha)
puruṣa-sūkta
lakṣmī-sūkta
camānuvāka
śātādhyāya-mantra
Rudra-pañcaka
asyavāma-sūkta
Devī-pañcaka
tarpaṇa
abhiṣeka
Devīrahasye Mahāgaṇapati
Padmapurāṇe Viṣṇusaṃvāda
Mahābhārate Śāntiparvaṇe dāna
indrākṣī-śatanāma
kārtika-Udyāpana
janmāṣṭamī-Udyāpana
cāturmāsa-Udyāpana
pratiṣṭhā-Udyāpana
satyanārāyaṇa-Udyāpana
ānanda(?)Udyāpana
somārcana-Udyāpana
ślokatarpaṇa
godāna-vidhi
śayya-dāna

9. Two Sharada Manuscripts from Residence of Tariq Sahib, Baramula

Bhagavata Mahapuran, Bhagavata Gita with profuse Colophonal Notes, Other Bhakti Texts
Mokshopaya garbled pages:

10. Upakarma Vidhi from Residence of Asif Sahib, Pulwama

https://archive.org/details/upakarma-vidhi-partial-by-order-of-maharaja-ranbir-singh-srinagar-antar-yantralaya

It is sad that even though this is the second time, we are scanning the same book, it too list the last one is partial and ends ager pg 66 – eight more pages than the last one which can be seen below:

https://archive.org/details/upakarmavidhipartialcompiledbyorderofmaharajashriranvirsinghantaryantralayasrinagar/mode/2up

 

 

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