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GB 891 WJ-WJ/3-WJ/3/1/1
Title
Sanyasi
Date(s)
- 27 January 1785 (Creation)
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This is a pencil sketch with inscription on the reverse "A Senyasi, or Zealot smoking his Hukkah and giving orders for the dimensions of the grave in which he was buried alive at his own desire, though the Verzir's brother Saadat Ali offered him a large sum to abandon his enthusiastick resolution. Benares, 27 Jan. 1785"
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- English