c. 1700 Sanskrit Double-sided Ink and Watercolor Leaf from Horoscope zweifels I particularly love the faces

I particularly love the faces and expressions

and sign tacking)

blank backs--many of which feature beautiful shadow images of the specimens

in England

I found an old farm set with similar paper to that covering this barn

c. 1700 Sanskrit Double-sided Ink and Watercolor Leaf from Horoscope zweifels I particularly love the facesI'm happy when I find things accompanied by some specific information about them (how rare!); in the case of this Sanskrit manuscript page, a label on the mat I found with it dates it to around 1700, and identifies it as a leaf from a Brahmin's horoscope. Nice to know, at least abstractly, what is being charted here and that glorious orange and yellow suggests lots of fire:) but to this Western eye, uneducated in reading Sanskrit, it's a formally