[INDOLOGY] In search of three plates from Calcutta Review, Vol. XI (1849) (update)

jacob at fabularasa.dk jacob at fabularasa.dk
Mon Aug 25 11:12:18 UTC 2014


I meant to point out that Plate II (not Plate I) is in fact a gyan 
chaupar gameboard (which, however, I am also almost certainly sure that 
Plate I is):

http://books.google.dk/books?id=V50bAQAAIAAJ&hl=da&pg=PA440-IA1#v=onepage&q&f=true

Best,
Jacob

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Dear list,

I am trying to obtain a copy of the three plates attached to the 
following article:

Shome, Baboo Bipin Behari (1849) "Physical Errors of Hinduism" in 
Calcutta Review, Vol. XI, pp. 397-444.

The plates are attached as follows:

Pl. I: Btw. pages 422 & 423
Pl. II: Btw. pages 440 & 441
Pl. III: Btw. pages 438 & 439

The plates are missing from the DLI scan, and in the Google Books scan 
they have not been unfolded before being scanned. See, for example, 
plate I:

http://books.google.dk/books?id=V50bAQAAIAAJ&hl=da&pg=PA422-IA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

(Plate I is especially interesting since the author apparently did not 
recognize it is a gyan chaupar gameboard, but simply treated it as a 
cosmological drawing of the Mount Meru world system - which it, of 
course, also is.)

If anyone has access to the plates in full, and would be so kind as to 
supply me with a full scan of them, I would be most grateful.

Kind regards,
Jacob

Jacob Schmidt-Madsen
Department of Indology
University of Copenhagen
Denmark







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