Image: Miniature of Guru Nanak from Astronomical treatise

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Description: Medium: Ink and pigments on paper Date: 1840 ZoomifyInteractive zoomable image (needs Flash) Print imageFull size printable image This miniature portrait of Guru Nanak comes from the 'Sarvasiddhantattvacudamani' - 'The Crest-Jewel of the Essence of all Systems of Astronomy' - written by Durgashankar Pathak in Varanasi. The manuscript was commissioned around 1840 by a Sikh nobleman called Lehna Singh Majithia, whose horoscope is included in the manuscript. Find out more about this manuscript and other sacred texts in Expressions of Faith.
Title: Miniature of Guru Nanak from Astronomical treatise
Credit: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/033ori000005259u00009000.html
Author: Durgashankar Pathak
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