Private viewing and talk on The Chandayan

Premchand Roychand Gallery, First Floor, Extension Wing, CSMVS Mumbai, India

Composed in Hindavi (using the Old Hindi dialect of Jaunpuri Avadhi), the Chandayan is regarded as one of the foundational texts of the history of Hindi literature. The remains of copies that were once profusely  illustrated sometime between the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries are also foundational, for studies in art history. Not only [...]