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Description

Title: Tanka of Viśrāvaṇa
Published / Created: circa 1900-circa 1950
Description: A Nepalese watercolor painting on cotton that depicts Viśrāvaṇa on a white horse with smaller figures on elephants, a lion, and a tiger in the four corners. Inscriptions in Tibetan on verso.
Provenance: Acquired from various sources. For further information consult entries for individual tankas in the guide to the collection., Gift of Wendell Phillips Colton, Jr. (Yale 1929) and Cornelia Mary Safford Colton, 1968.
Language: Tibetan
Sanskrit

Item Location

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

Tibet MSS 62

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  - Series II: Identified Subjects, circa 1600-circa 1950
    Viśrāvaṇa
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Box 76 (Oversize)

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Citation: Tanka Collection. General Collection of Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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Object ID (OID): 10563764

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