Hindu chronology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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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.)
ترجمهٔ پورانارته پرکاس شاستر Tarjumeh-yi pūrānāratah parakāsa shāstra, 1198 A.H., 1783 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 328
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...
Dates:
1198 A.H.; 1783 C.E.