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Crowd listening to recital and commentary on the Mahabharata, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by Francois Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
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Crowd listening to recital and commentary on the Mahabharata, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by Francois Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.

Francois Balthazar Solvyns · 1799

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: A mohabaurut-er-shoba ; an assembly to hear the text and comments on Mohabaurut - the reader sits on an elevated chair, decorated with flowers, ye salgram stone, &c, - in the morning he reads the text, wh<ich> is very little attended, so few understanding the Sanscrit language; - but in the evening, when the explanation is in Bengalee, the meeting is very much

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