It is a story from the Mahabharata. It is about how the pandavas in their exile in the forest encounter a huge python. The python asks them four questions and threatens to swallow them if they fail to answer correctly.
The content of the manuscript from folio 3(r) to 11(v) fortells about illnesses and causes of death of a person based on the birthday of a person. Further, from folio 13(r) to 16(v) contains list of Ahom kings and their ruling period in a chronological order starting from Sukafa uptill Surrempha....
It is a fortune telling manuscript. It was used to forecast good or bad happenings of any event, to select days that would be good for conducting marriage ceremonies, building houses, death anniversaries or to forecast the fortune of any person calculating the date of birth of the person.
It is a fortune telling manuscript. It was used to forecast good or bad happenings of any event, to select days that would be good for conducting marriage ceremonies, building houses, death anniversaries or to forecast the fortune of any person calculating the date of birth of the person.
It is a fortune telling manuscript. It was used to forecast good or bad happenings of any event, to select days that would be good for conducting marriage ceremonies, building houses, death anniversaries or to forecast the fortune of any person calculating the date of birth of the person.
The text in this manuscript is about calling different Gods including Lengdon to come to the place of worship to accept the offerings made to them. The different Gods mentioned here are Lengdon and his sons, God of rain, God of thunder, God of snow, God of light and others. Fol 2 (IMG_4692) conta...