Details

Subjects:

Elephants in art.
Peacocks in art.
Rāvaṇa (Hindu mythological character).
Fishes -- Drawings.
Chariots in art.
Swords -- Bangladesh.
Swords.
Fishes.
Bangladesh.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Drawings (visual works)
Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Drawings.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Picture poems include drawings of a horse, the demon Rāvaṇa, peacock, elephant, a sword, a fish, and a chariot. The poems are written beside the drawings and then rewritten as a kind of word puzzle inside of the drawing. Manuscript is badly damaged by rats.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
4 leaves; photo of cotton cover.
Title from cover notes.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 12 x 40 cm.
Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

OCLC:

914246195