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The story of the Bhagvadgita. Seated on the throne and served by an attendant waving a whisk made of peacock feathers, the blind king Dhrtarastra listens as the visionary narrator Sanjaya relates the events of the battle between the Kaurava and the Pandava clans

MS Panjabi 255, folio 353 verso

The Four Gospels, 1495, Gospel of St John 4: 43-46, showing marginal ornament in the form of a sphinx

J.J. Scheuchzer, Physica sacra, tab XXVIII

Panjabi manuscript 255

Panjabi Manuscript 255

The Four Gospels, 1495. St Luke's Gospel 5: 7-14 in bologir script with decorated capitals

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The Four Gospels, 1495, dark brown leather over boards with silver ornaments and a cross studded with five comelian stones

The mahatmya of the 13th adhyaya. An adulterous woman from the city of Harinam goes to the forest with her husband and is attacked by a tiger who only eats those who commit immoral acts. Reborn as a low-caste Chandala, the woman hears the 13th adhyaya of the Bhagvadgita from the holy man and asks him to recite it to the tiger as well. Both the woman and the tiger receive divine bodies and are taken to Visnu's heaven

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Panjabi Manuscript 255

Panjabi Manuscript 255

Panjabi Manuscript 255

The story of the Bhagvadgita. Seated on the throne and served by an attendant waving a whisk made of peacock feathers, the blind king Dhrtarastra listens as the visionary narrator Sanjaya relates the events of the battle between the Kaurava and the Pandava clans

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Panjabi Manuscript 255

Panjabi Manuscript 255

Panjabi Manuscript 255

The story of the Bhagvadgita. Seated on the throne and served by an attendant waving a whisk made of peacock feathers, the blind king Dhrtarastra listens as the visionary narrator Sanjaya relates the events of the battle between the Kaurava and the Pandava clans

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