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Nepal
Asha
Archives.
The Asha Archives is a public library of Nepalese
manuscripts, named after the late Mr. Asha Man Singh
Kansakar who was a prominent activist, social worker,
educationist and Newar writer who had founded several
social, cultural, literary and educational institutions.
The nucleus of this collection was donated by Prem
Bahadur Kansakar to Cwasa Pasa, a premier literary
association of Newar writers on August 16, 1985. To this
personal collection were later added the donations of
valuable manuscripts and palmleaf documents by several
well-wishers and friends. Among them mention should be
made of Mr. Ian Alsop, an American student of Kansakar,
Dharma Ratna Bajracharya, Gurushekhar Upadhyaya,
Reverend Shucho Takaoka, Gyan Ratna, and Dr. Kamal
Prakash Malla. Similarly, more than a dozen other donors
have helped this archives with gifts of their personal
collection of manuscripts.
The Asha Archives was inaugurated by Professor Yujiro
Hayashi, the executive director of the Toyota
Foundation, Japan on December 7, 1987. It was made
accessible for the public since that day. The Toyota
Foundation had made a generous grant to purchase,
innovate and furnish the house where it is now located.
The foundation had also supported the documentation of
the manuscripts and the initial operation of the
Archives with a fund deposited as seed money and
endowment.
In this archieves there are several valuable collections
of palmleaf, loose leaf pothi and folded manuscripts.
There are more than 6700 manuscripts and about 1100
palmleaf landgrant documents. These manuscripts belong
to various sects and genres written in different
languages and scripts. Largest among these
are the ritual texts, medical texts, manuals of magic
and necromancy, astrology/astronomy, Vedic, Puranic and
Tantric texts of Shaiva, Bauddha and Shakta sects. A
large number also come from the Mahayana and Vajrayana
sects. There are technical and symbolic drawings and
architectural designs of religious and secular
structures, painted covers, and book illustrations of
great beauty and delicacy. Perhaps the most important
components of the archieves are the literary texts,
hymns, songs, plays, popular narratives, didactic tales
and Buddhist avadanas in the Newar language. Written in
Sanskrit, Nepal bhasa, Maithili, and Nepali language one
can find specimens of beautiful calligraphy in the
collection written in plain black ink, silver and golden
letters.
The Asha Archives is located in the western edge of the
old Kathmandu city, in a locality known as Kulanbhulu. |
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