[INDOLOGY] Help with Manuscript source

[Dominik Wujastyk]

To answer to your question, Ken, I don't know, and the script, size
(yellow), and general appearance is very generic.  North India, early
nineteenth century, would be my guess.

Just for fun, I gave your manuscript to the OCR function at Dharmamitra.
This was the result:

साझा करोन फाब होत होगा सहीसेतीबरकत से होगा
सुत्रोणानुमहमनोना हो देसण सन्नाई है.
जो रुमली ना ही ओर करेंगी तो छू बहोगा सहीसो भला
रोजि कैद र बुलगे सही से ती दर सालसेती
अमारत करोन फाब होत हो जासही
गईवरून के ते क दिन पी छपा वेगा बरकत है.
बबर ट्रा लसती आवेगास ही होगा
दावा करो कबूल कबर के त होगों
बेटा भला हो गोभागवान वेंगोभला होगासही
बरीदनकरो भलाई नाहीं है न फाटो टापावेंगा

While it's very imperfect, I'm amazed it can do anything at all!  It's
always been my conviction that OCR would never deal with manuscripts, but I
think it's time to change my mind.  Since Dharmamitra "knows" Sanskrit and
can refer to a language corpus, it can probably start to recognize text
fragments and make informed guesses about what illegible akṣaras might be.

Best,
Dominik


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On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 at 22:13, Kenneth Gregory Zysk via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear List,
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> The following folio is the first of eight with a drawing of a bird and
> accompanying text in Hindi. I should appreciate it if some one could
> identify where this manuscript comes from.
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> Many thanks,
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> Ken
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