Manuscripts from Indian Collection

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

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इति श्री रामचरितमानसे सकलकलिकलुषविध्वंसने अविरलहरिभक्तिसंपादिनी नाम सप्तमसोपानः समाप्त: । शुभमस्तु । मंगलमस्तु ।
Only copy of the complete Ramacharitamanasa (an original composition on the life of Rāma) written in A.D. 1647, only 24 years after the death of the famous poet and saint, Tulsidas.
Lent by the All India Kashiraj Trust, Varanasi.
MRIGĀVATI (Romantic poem of an Indian love story)
Foll. 250; size 18.7x17.4 cm; paper; Kaithi script; Hindi (Avadhi dialect). Author: Kutban (A.D. 1615).
All the 250 folios have on their obverse appropriate full-page paintings of the Malwa school.
Lent by the Bharat Kala Bhavan, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
AVATĀRAGĪTĀ BHĀSHĀ ŠIROMANI
(Describes incarnations of Vishnu)
Foll. 629; paper; Devanāgari script; Hindi (Avadhi dialect); dated Samvat 1733 (A. D. 1676). Author : Naraharadasa (middle of the 16th century). Begins : ॥१०॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः । श्रीकृष्णाय नमः ॥ अथ अवतारगीताभाषा बारहट नरहरदास
कृत लिख्यते ।। अथ साठक ॥ सुंडादंडप्रचंडमेकदसणं मदगंधगलस्थलं । सिन्दूरारुणतुंडमंडित
मुखं भृगस्य गुंजारवं ।। Ends: दुहा-सोरह सहस अरु आठसै, इकसठ ऊपर ांन ।
छंद अनुष्टुप करि सकल, पूरन ग्रंथ प्रमांन ॥ १ ॥
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