Happy Diwali to everyone.
I have a lot of news to share.
But before that My Fundraiser – as always strictly for consideration by folks with dispensable income – Given that I need to expand into a Manuscript Repository in Delhi with 2 Staff and increase my head count in Varanasi – my newest Center.
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I had Varanasi in my mind for a long time but a Clear Signal from the Universe came when Aditya ji of Bharat Maha Mandal and Hon. V.C. Shri Rajaram Shukla ji of Sampurnananda Sanskrit University both simultaenously expressed a desire to scan there Book Antiquities.
Shukla ji apprised me that due to Spring Cleaning for Covid they discovered a stash of Saraswati Sushma and Pandit Magazines – the latter one of the Oldest Sanskrit Magazines with a First print date of somehwere between 1850-60.
Only a few have been uploaded belowhttps://archive.org/details/@sampurnanand_university
Also not uploaded are the Several Princess of Wales Saraswati Bhavan Granthmala Series of Texts as they will all be formally launched in a Webinar soon.
Most Bharat Dharma Maha Mandal Publications have been scanned. Viewable below:
https://archive.org/details/@bharat_dharma_mahamandal
There were other rewarding collections that we could access.
Shri Tarun Dwivedi s/o renowned Agamist and Scholar Shri Vraj Vallabh Dwivediji told us about a recent Donation to a Local Library of several 19th Century Publications and Hand Written Manuscripts. The Librarian Shri Parihar most generously opened his Doors for us:
Results of this generosity are now 109 books proud members of the Information Super Highway.
https://archive.org/details/@egangotri_books?and[]=subject%3A%22Tarun+Dwivedi+and+K+S+Parihar%22
We have also been able to also get access to 2 Large and Antique Collections in Varanasi.
The Famous Jangamwadi Math and Ved Nidhi in Laksa.
https://archive.org/details/@jangamwadi
Details on our Jangamwadi Math can be read belowhttps://egangotri.wordpress.com/2020/10/18/digitization-starts-at-jangamwadi-math-varanasi/
Ved Nidhi has just 11 books for now. we have started with Yoga Texts:
https://archive.org/details/@vedanidhi_vns
This 1895 Lahore Patanjala Yoga is the rarest find so far
Patanjala Yog Darshan With Vyas Bhashya 1895 Lahore Virajanand Press : Virajanand Press : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Our Center in Srinagar kept spewing more rarities thanks to Venerable Scholar Poet Ayaz Rasool Naski Sahib and ofcourse the Veteran Bibliophile/Book-Worshipper Dervesh Mansoor Daikoo.
These are the Sharada Manuscript from Residence of Nazki Sahib.
https://archive.org/details/@dabistan-e-nazki?and[]=subject%3A%22Ayaz+Rasool+Nazki+Sharada+Collection%22
More Sharada Manuscripts soon.
312 Books from Daikoo in this Period:
https://archive.org/details/@kashmirresearchinstitute?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22eGangotri-34%22&sort=-publicdate
This book was one of the most well recieved:
Book V 103 Nasabnama Hazrat Gaus Al Azeem Syed Ahmad Shah Qadri : Syed Ahmad Shah Qadri : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Book V 103 Nasabnama Hazrat Gaus Al Azeem Syed Ahmad Shah Qadri : Syed A…Urdu Books at Kashmir Research Institute, Srinagar, ‘Book V103 Nasabnama Hazrat Gaus Al Azeem – Syed Ahmad Shah …
12 Sharada Manuscripts were scanned from different parts of Kashmir:https://archive.org/details/@egangotri_manuscript_space?&and[]=subject%3A%22eGangotri-34%22
In Jammu, Puneet Jyotishi ji handed us 118 Sharada Panchangs from his archives – more to come :
https://archive.org/details/@manmohan_jyotishi_collection?and[]=subject%3A%22Sharada+Panchang%22
Other Rare Books:
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With Czur ET-16 Plus – as I have mentioned before my speed has tripled and in October alone we scanned 1200 Books from 10+ strength Staff.
For People interested in our expenses. the monthly expenditure breakdown is as follows:July: 4.4 Lakh INRAug: 2.5 Lakh INRSept: 3.7 Lakh INROct: 2.1 Lakh INR
Pls. donate if you like a piece of the Merit of serving the Goddess of Learning in your Karmic Account.
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