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LAL BAHARI BIN HAR RAI (FL.17TH CENTURY): A PERSIAN TRANSLATION OF A SANSKRIT MANUAL ON DHARMA

SIGNED MUHAMMAD NAJAN (?), QAJAR IRAN, DATED 13 DHU AL-QA'DA AH 1270/7 AUGUST 1854 AD

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LAL BAHARI BIN HAR RAI (FL.17TH CENTURY): A PERSIAN TRANSLATION OF A SANSKRIT MANUAL ON DHARMA
SIGNED MUHAMMAD NAJAN (?), QAJAR IRAN, DATED 13 DHU AL-QA'DA AH 1270/7 AUGUST 1854 AD
Possibly the Yajnavalkya Smriti a translation from an earlier Sanskrit original, Persian manuscript on paper, 188ff. plus two fly-leaves, 19ll. of black nasta'liq to the page, important words overlined in red, titles in red, text within polychrome rules, with catchwords, opening folio with polychrome and gold illuminated headpiece, colophon signed and dated, in original gilt brown morocco
Text panel 9 1/8 x 5 ½in. (23.2 x 14cm.); folio 13 ¼ x 8 3/8in. (33.2 x 21.4cm.)

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This manuscript is called the Jak Dalak Smriti in the introduction. This could well be the Yajnavalkya Smriti - a Dharma-related text of Hinduism composed in Sanskrit between the 3rd to 5th-century CE. Lal Bahari, a native of Bhojpur, who was active in the reign of Emperor Aurangzeb, is known to have translated another popular Sanskrit legal digest, the Mitakshar, which he completed in 1657. See Nabil Hadi, Dictionary of Indo-Persian Literature, New Delhi, 1995, p. 320

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