Dear Ken,

The bird is plainly meant to be a bulbul — if the jaunty, forward cocked crest were not enough, the word bulbul is written directly below it.  The coloring is not right for the red-whiskered bulbul, so ubiquitous in India, which has that crest, but perhaps the red-vented is meant.  See:

https://ogaclicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Bulbuls.pdf

But your question was about the manuscript rather than the bird.  It is this one:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscoll390_item1914.html

Best,

Tim

Timothy Lubin
Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion, and Adjunct Professor of Law
Head of the Law, Justice, and Society Program
204 Tucker Hall
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia 24450

Visiting Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
Vice-President of the American Society for Premodern Asia

https://timothylubin.net | Academia.edu | SSRN | DHARMA Project

From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Reply-To: Rolf Heinrich Koch <rolfheiner.koch@gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, August 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
To: INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Help with Manuscript source

If the bird is blue coloured it may be a crow, the emblem of the planet Saturn (śāni). In Sri Lanka at each monastery you will find flags with this crow and a short prayer for śāni to counteract his influence, which is most feared by the people. 

May be you search the text for śāni or its Hindi equivalent.

Heiner

Am 03.08.2025 um 06:10 schrieb Kenneth Gregory Zysk via INDOLOGY:

Dear List,

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.

Many thanks,

Ken

 
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