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A handwritten scanned page from a childhood puja manual, showing Tamil mantra text in red and blue ink beside small pasted line-drawn illustrations of hand gestures and body placements. Four stacked drawings depict a hand on the chest, a hand on the head, crossed arms on the shoulders, and a hand held at the eye. A larger drawing at the bottom shows two seated figures in meditation pose, each with hands raised to the forehead and arrows indicating circular movement around the body. Sections are labelled Anganyasa and Vyapakanyasa, ritual hand-and-body placement practices.

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Scanned handwritten page numbered 6 from a childhood puja manual in Tamil, written in blue and red ink on aged, yellowed paper. Handwritten Tamil instructions describe nyasa, mantra recitation and the placement of hands, with a red-inked list of bija syllables and a sketch of a hand gesture labelled in Tamil. Two ink line drawings show a seated figure in meditation posture with hands raised to the head beside a seated figure with hands on the knees, both in cross-legged posture with dotted arrows indicating movement. The page is a scan of a notebook page with no people in the scene other than the drawn figures.A handwritten scan of a manuscript page in Tamil script, written in red and blue ink on aged, yellowed paper. Red mantra lines are arranged in verses with underlined syllables, and a blue line at the bottom reads a shorter mantra. Along the right edge are pasted black-and-white line drawings of hand gestures (mudras) and a figure with hands placed on the head, face and chest. No people are shown.A scan of a handwritten page from a childhood puja manual, with Tamil text in red and black ink and pencil-style line drawings of hands in mudras. Top red lines give nivedya and offering mantras. Below, a note in black ink says to show the mudras and recite the mantras. Six hand drawings are arranged in two rows: one labelled prana-ayaya svaha, one labelled apana-ayaya svaha, one labelled vyanaya svaha, one labelled udanaya svaha and one labelled samanaya svaha. The page is printed on paper and shows no people.1996 - Puja Manual Handwritten by HDHRare archival collection1996 - Puja Manual Handwritten by HDHScanned handwritten manual page numbered 35, with blue and red ink Tamil writing on aged paper, headed ஆரதி (aarti). Instructions describe drawing a triangle mandala, placing the aarti lamp on it, and reciting mantras while circling the flame. Three hand gesture illustrations are pasted on the page: a pointing hand labelled ஹ்ரீம் (Hreem) with avakundana mudra, a palms-together namaskara hand labelled வம் with the nabhi (navel) mudra, and a hand-gesture drawing labelled ஓ with the madhya mudra. Notes at the bottom say to circle the lamp before the guru's feet four times, the navel once, and the face three times, seven circlings in total. Yellow stains mark the paper.A scanned handwritten notebook page with pen-drawn line illustrations of two seated meditators in cross-legged posture with hands raised to the head and crossed at the chest, dashed arrows showing movement, over a page of handwritten Tamil and Sanskrit mantra text in red and blue ink, with Tamil marginal notes and a small hand-drawn mudra sketch at right. No physical people are present; the figures are drawings.Rare archival collection1996 - Puja Manual Handwritten by HDH1996 - Puja Manual Handwritten by HDHScanned handwritten page from a childhood puja manual, written in red and blue ink in Tamil script. Page numbered 24 at top left, with a hand-drawn bird logo and two outlined hand mudra illustrations, one at upper right and one in praying position at lower right. Red-inked mantra verses are set in stanzas with underlined syllables, followed by blue-inked instructions and a closing ritual line. No people are visible; the page is a document scan.