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Title

Darśana
दर्शन

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2676
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975024593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/972641755
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7502459

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Picture book, containing drawings and miniature paintings of birds and animals, mythological beings, scenes of daily life (such as a woman breastfeeding a child), court scenes, and more. Many scenes of well-known Hindu iconography featuring gods and goddesses. Many of the pictures are unfinished, upside-down or overpainted, suggesting a work in progress or a sketchbook with notes.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 3 lines per leaf.
   
• 70 leaves foliated 1-70, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in white or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; borders marked with yellow line; paintings throughout often over painted with second drawing or painting, many unfinished.
   

Extent

1 item (70 leaves) : 9 x 11 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Animals--Art
• Hindu gods--Art
• Hindu goddesses--Art
• Hindu women--Art

Genres

• Illuminations (painting)
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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