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[Mahābhārata anthology].

Accession number
MS M.1029
Object title
[Mahābhārata anthology].
Display Date
1809.
Created
Kashmir, 1809.
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Glazier, 1981.
Description
265 leaves, bound : paper, ill. ; 117 x 162 mm
Provenance
Henry S. Glazier (purchased in Calcutta, 1933).
Notes
Ms. copied in Kashmir and completed saṃvat 1866 (i.e., 1809).
Includes excerpts from the Bhagavadgītā, Bhīṣmastavarāja, Viṣṇusahasranāma, Gajendramokṣaṇa, and Anusmṛti.
Decoration: 23 large and 64 small miniatures.
Scribe: Manasāgama Paṇḍita Kāśmīrī, who has signed and dated the manuscript on fol. 265.
Text box varies: ca. 60 x 80 mm., 5 lines.
Script
devanāgarī
Language
Sanskrit
Century
Classification