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Container Reference (shelfmark) Or 4769-4770

61. Or 4770, f.29

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4770, f.29
Title:
A shaven headed brahmin making an offering to a shaligrama image of Vishnu, with all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (fruit and flowers, pots of water etc., lamps, coconut, conch shell, bell).
Scope & Content:
A Brahmin dressed and seated similarly to 28, also telling his beads, with all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (no image, with the saligrama stone at the centre of the implements). Inscribed in Persian below: ‘. parastish shalagram.’ ‘29. The manner of making the Poujah to Sal...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

62. Or 4770, f.30

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4770, f.30
Title:
A shaven headed brahmin making an offering to an image of Ganesh, with all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (fruit and flowers, pots of water etc., lamps, coconut, conch shell, bell).
Scope & Content:
A Brahmin dressed and similarly seated to 27, his hands joined, with red spots on his forehead etc. (with a white vertical streak above on his forehead), with a small gilt image of Ganesa before him and with all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (mostly sweets, and no bell). Inscr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

63. Or 4770, f.31

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4770, f.31
Title:
A brahmin standing before a sivalingam shrine under a fig tree, performing arati with his lamp and holding also a bell, with other offerings and implements around it and on the ground before the brahmin.
Scope & Content:
A Brahmin dressed as in 27, standing before a ‘sivalingam’ shrine under a fig tree, performing ‘arati’ with his lamp and holding also a bell. The ‘sivalingam’ has flowers on it and a pot of water above lustrating it, with other offerings and implements around it and on the ground before the Bra...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

64. Or 4770, f.32

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4770, f.32
Title:
Guru Nanak, dressed in a blue long gown and a blue pointed cap, haloed, seated on a terrace with the musician Mardana dressed in a long green jama and green turban, playing the rebab.
Scope & Content:
Guru Nanak, dressed in a blue long gown and a blue pointed cap, haloed, seated on a terrace with the musician Mardana dressed in a long green ‘jama’ and green turban, playing the rebab. Inscribed in Persian below: ‘. mardana. nanak shah.’ ‘32. Nanuc, the Illustrious founder of the Sect of the ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item