Hindu literature, Persian
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Or Ms 326: بهوپال شاستر Bhūpāl shāstra, undated
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 326
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...
Dates:
undated
Or Ms 327: باششٿه جوگ Bāshishṭah Jūg, 1198 A.H., 1783 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 327
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....
Dates:
1198 A.H.; 1783 C.E.
Or Ms 329: سنگهاسن بتّيسی Singhāsana battīsī, 1198 A.H., 1783 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 329
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1198 A.H.; 1783 C.E.