cover image: Ardveraf

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Ardveraf

This manuscript was authored by Manakji Muroji Naushirvan and comprises three illustrated poems called the Qissa-i-Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi. It begins with a mathnavi about the encounter of the famous Mahmud of Ghazna with a Zoroastrian priest, Ardveraf. Following the first mathnavi is a second one which debates the Zoroastrian beliefs of heaven and hell. It is authored by Manakji Muroji Naushirvan and is written in Nastaliq script.
manuscript poem

Authors

Manakji Muroji Naushirvan

Identifier
54.16/2
Material
Paper, Ink
Pages
22 x 12.3 cm; 114 folios; 117 ill.
Published in
India
Type
Manuscript