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Durgashankar Pathak
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This miniature portrait of Guru Nanak comes from the 'Sarvasiddhantattvacudamani' - 'The Crest-Jewel of the Essence of all Systems of Astronomy' - written by Durgashankar Pathak in Varanasi. The manuscript was commissioned around 1840 by a Sikh nobleman called Lehna Singh Majithia, whose horoscope is included in the manuscript.

Find out more about this manuscript and other sacred texts in Expressions of Faith.
Date 1840
date QS:P571,+1840-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/033ori000005259u00009000.html

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