Scope and Contents A collection of Hindu codes intended for the use of kings, translated from the Sanskrit by an unnamed Muslim. The author of the original text is Paras-Rām b. Kishtan-Dīw. Contains a single illustration on fol. 244b. The decoration is unfinished, with many blank space left for illustrations and diagrams. The margins contain numerous corrections and additions that appear to be in the same hand as the main text, raising the possibility that this is the holograph...

Scope and Contents An exposition of Hindu mysticism of which this is an abridged form. The original translation is by Shaykh Abū al-Faz̤l 'Allāmī', who completed it at the request of Mughal ruler Akbar the Great (r. 1556-1605 C.E.) in 1006 A.H., 1597 C.E.Copied at Calcutta by Shaykh Aḥmad-Baksh of Aẓīmābād (Patna) and dated with the Dated the Faṣlī year 1192 (see dating for A.H. and C.E. equivalents).In the same hand as, and bearing very similar physical features to, Or Mss 328 and 329....

Scope and Contents An Abridgment of the Pūrānāratha Parakāsa Shāstra, an exposition of the Hindu chronology and cosmogony, and of their Shāstras, of which the original in Sanskrit is by Pandit Birdhāī Rādhākanta Tarka. The translation was completed by Zūrāwar-Singh at the desire of the Governor-General of India Warren Hastings (d. 1818).Dated the Faṣlī year 1192 (see dating for A.H. and C.E. equivalents).In the same hand as, and bearing very similar physical features to, Or Mss 327 and...

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An abridged version of the well-known original Sanskrit work of the thirty-two tales of the throne, or the stories of King Vikramaditya and Rājah Bhūj. Copied in Calcutta in the Faṣlī year 1192 (see dating for A.H. and C.E. equivalents) by Shaykh Aḥmad-Baksh Ṣiddīqī.

In the same hand as, and bearing very similar physical features to, Or Mss 327 and 328. It is highly likely that all three manuscripts are of shared origin and production history.

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An encyclopaedia of one hundred and sixty different sciences known to Muslims, compiled by Shī‘ī scholar Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd al- ‘Āmulī (d. 753 A.H., 1352 C.E.). Illuminated frontispiece.

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A number of letters, etc, written and collected at the request of friends by Khwājah Shihāb al-Dīn, or as he calls himself, ‘Abd-Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Marwārīd (d. 922 A.H., 1516 C.E.), a poet from Kerman, present day Iran, who used the pen name "Bayānī".

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Models of various kinds of correspondence by Harkarn, son of the Mathurā-Dās Kanbū Multānī, whom Mughal ruler Jahāngīr (r. 1605-1627 C.E.) had appointed Ṣūbahdūr, or governor, of Akbarābād (Agra) during 1031-1032 A.H., 1621-1622 C.E.

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A collection of letters written to the Mughal ruler Shāhjahān (r. 1628–1658 C.E.) and other distinguished individuals during his reign, by Chandarbhān (d. 1068 or 1073 A.H., 1657 or 1662 C.E.), poetically named "Brahman". He was for a time a record-writer at the royal court and author of the Chahār-Chaman.

Copied in the Faṣlī year 1179 (see dating for A.H. and C.E. equivalents) by Ṣāhib-Singh of Fatḥpūr (Awadh).

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A collection of letters composed by Shīr ‘Alī, or his more common name 'Shīr-Ḥamlah'. Copied by Shīw-Bakhsh in the Faṣlī year 1178 (see dating for A.H. and C.E. equivalents) at Maḥmūdābād.

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This work deals with the subtilties of style in the composition of both prose and poetry. The original text was compiled in 1145 A.H., 1732-1733 C.E. by Ranjhūr-Dās (also called Ranchūr-Dās).