Stunning Double Sided Antique Sanscrit Manuscript Page farm animal and crystalline green glaze pooling

and crystalline green glaze pooling in crags and crevices here and there

An interactive dial allows one to scroll through the codes or flag positions that correspond to each letter of the alphabet

which at least according to one source were used to carry cooked food to monasteries—an offer to the monks as an act of merit-earning

seemingly having been worked from both sides

including one author and three with the names of books written by him (yes

Stunning Double Sided Antique Sanscrit Manuscript Page farm animal and crystalline green glaze poolingNot really my expertise (what is?!) but I believe this is quite old, (18th c?) I can't read Sanscrit, and don't know the narrative being represented, but I do know it's an exquisite thing, that makes me think I really need to start paying more attention to Indian manuscripts! I've gone back and forth on which side of the double sided page I like better I'm completely smitten with this pair of men in rich red, one with fists up the other looking as if