The Muslim cosmogony according to the commentaries of Massabi and Meschat. The world supported by an angel standing on a mountain of rubies, which is supported by a many horned white bull standing on a fish in water above sand and air.

Faizabad, India

ca. 1774

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Gentil; Manuscripts, Col J B J Gentil, Faizabad, ca. 1774. Page number 34 (Gentil numbered two successive pages '22'). The Muslim cosmogony according to the commentaries of Massabi and Meschat.

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