MSS EUR HODGSON/95 Newar castes and Newar Buddhism (Persian and Urdu manuscripts mostly translated from Nepali, Newari and Sanskrit) 1830s
Newar castes (jātamālā), customs and manners, Buddhism: the tri-yānas (three vehicles), āṃnāya; total folios: 103.
1[vol.95 fol(s)2-3] Rough notes on various subjects including locations, place names, revenue and prices. Machine-made paper, very rough hand.
Farsi
As described in the title.
2[vol.95 fol(s)5-74] Newarjātamalā (account of castes of the Newars) Nepali hand-made paper, very neat and fair hands mixed.
Farsi
ff. 5-69: Account of 28 castes of the Newars including classification starting with Brahmin and ending with a caste called Phogin (traditionally involved in ritualised begging and placed at the bottom of the caste hierarchy), customs and manners, some historical events with date for example Prithvi Narayan Shah's conquest of the Valley in the year 888 NE (1768 CE). The Phogin are today referred to as Dyahla or Pwah.
ff. 70-74b: Additional list of castes of Newars with some rough notes on customs and manners.
English and Nepali title description (ff. 69b, 74b), includes a brief introduction (colophon) on the study itself mentioning the fact that it was commissioned by Brian Hodgson who has been given all kinds of highly flattering titles, for example "lord of bounty and exalted authority".
3[vol.95 fol(s)75-76b] An isolated leaf account of the origin of Nepal and its rulers, a list of Sanskrit technical words Nepali hand-made and Machine paper mixed, fair hands.
Urdu Sanskrit
f. 75: A beginning folio from an account of Nepal mentioning the origin of Pashupatinath on the bank of the River Bagamati and the early rulers of Nepal;
f. 76: Technical words include rasa, svāda, sura, atīta and yūga.
4[vol.95 fol(s)78-86] Account of the Triyānas (three vehicles schools of Buddhism) 1842 Nepali hand-made paper, fair hands.
Farsi Sanskrit
Details of the description of the triyānas including terms like pāpa, puṇya, trikāyaśudda, daśakosalatyāga, bodhicittodpāda, sometimes quoting verses in the original Sanskrit; English and Nepali title descriptions (Buddhism and Buddhist deities).
5[vol.95 fol(s)87a and b] Selected Nepali terms relating to topography and routes Machine-made paper, fair hand.
Urdu Nepali
Selected Nepali terms relating to topography or routes containing words like kholā (stream or river), bhīr (cliff or steep mountain slope), dānḍā (ridge), lekh (higher elevation of the mountain region), suru or suruāt (beginning).
6[vol.95 fol(s)88-93] Routes from Kathmandu to China and accounts of various commodities traded between Nepal, India and China Nepali hand-made and machine-made paper mixed, fair and poor hands.
Urdu
As mentioned in the title (routes from Kathmandu to China and commodities traded between Nepal and China).
7[vol.95 fol(s)94-95] List of place names and distances between them Machine-made paper, fair hand.
Mixed
Names of 17 places from Basaulia to Nuwakot with distances between them given in kos, route totalling 426 kosas.
8[vol.95 fol(s)95-103] Description of Tri-āmnāyas and related teachings Nepali hand-made paper, mixed hands some fair some poor.
Hindi Urdu
As described in the title (Buddhism and Buddhist deities).