Manuscripts from Indian Collection

Author(s): National Museum New Delhi
Publisher: National Museum New Delhi

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Colophon : इति पालकाप्ये ॥ ९॥ नवमप्रकरणं संपूर्णम् ।।
इति श्री शरभेद्रमहाराजविरचिते गजशास्त्रभाषाप्रबंधे गजगतिदोषगुणनिरूपणं नाम ।। ६॥
नवमप्रकरणं संपूर्णम् । Pictures, over 600 in number, illustrations of elephants with different temperaments and of how the elephants were captured, tamed and trained for fighting; some pictures are of ailing elephants.
Lent by the Sarasvati Mahal Library. Tanjore (Madras).
AŚVAŚĀSTRA (On horses of different breeds and their chief characteristics)
Foll. 174 sheets ; size 40x25 cm; paper ; Devanagari script, Author : Nakula (according to traditional belief).
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आलिंग्य देवी हरितां निषण्णां संध्यारुणं पाशसृणीर्वहन्तम् । परस्परस्पृष्टकटीनिवेशं भयापहं शक्तिगणेशमीडे ।। वाहनेषु च ये वर्गा : कुर्वन्ति हरिवाहनम् । सुहृदस्तव वाहानामन्ये तु हरयस्तव ।। इति वाहनाध्यायः ।।
Colophon : दृष्ट्वा समस्तं नकुलः शास्त्रं तच्छालिहोत्रीयं ।
ब्रूते तत्त्वार्थमनघं शास्त्रं कृत्वा समासतः ।। 275 illustrations of the Maratha school of Tanjore (A.D. 1800-1832). Lent by the Sarasvati Mahal Library, Tanjore (Madras).
CHATURANGAVIHĀRA (Moves of dice in chess)
Foll. 32; size 20.6x18.2 cm ; paper ; Devanagari script ; 15 to 25 lines to a page ; Sanskrit and Marathi. Author : Krishnendramaharaja of Mysore.
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