Ramacaritamanas in Nagari/Nastaliq

Allen Thrasher athr at loc.gov
Wed Mar 20 18:28:06 UTC 1996


I have not seen that in manuscripts but have purchased several biscriptal 
printed editions (Nagari/Perso-Arabic) of Sanskrit religious classics in 
Kashmir.  The Perso-Arabic was a transliteration not a translation.


Allen Thrasher


On Tue, 19 Mar 1996 P.Friedlander at wellcome.ac.uk wrote:

> I have recently seen a manuscript of the Ramacaritamanasa copied in AD 1819 
> which is in both Nagari and Nastaliq scripts, each page being in two columns,
>  one for each script.
> I've never seen anything like it before.
> I wonder if anyone else has ever seen similar dual script manuscripts of 
> famous Hindi works, or for that matter other NIA or Sanskrit works?
> Dr Peter G. Friedlander
> Cataloguer of Hindi and Panjabi Manuscripts
> Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
> 183 Euston Road
> London NW1 2BN
> England
> e-mail: P.Friedlander at wellcome.ac.uk
> 
> 






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