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Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)

Title	Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)
Publication Date:	1600-1604
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	227 mm x 147 mm x 17 mm (height x width x depth)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	In 16
Library Location	Indian collection
Date	1600-1604
Notes	Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat), by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562). This book consists of ten chapters explaining the philosophy of hatha yoga, with paintings showing twenty-one different positions (asanas). Written in Persian, the work was composed in Gujarat c. 1550 by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), a prominent Sufi, drawing from an earlier Arabic version (Pool of life, or Hawd al-hayat), of an original Sanskrit text (Amrita Kunda, now lost). This manuscript was produced in early seventeenth-century Mughal India: it is one of three yoga-related texts commissioned for prince Selim (the future Mughal emperor, Jahangir). The paintings are now detached from the codex, on twelve separately-mounted folios (also in the Chester Beatty collection). Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, 52 folios, Persian text in nasta`liq script, the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat), by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), unsigned, Allahabad, India, c. 1600-1604.
Materyal	Paper (material), Leather (material), Ink (material), Pigment (material)
Nesne Adı	Codex
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)

Publication Date 1600-1604

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 227 mm x 147 mm x 17 mm (height x width x depth)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID In 16

Library Location Indian collection

Date 1600-1604

Notes Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat), by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562). This book consists of ten chapters explaining the philosophy of hatha yoga, with paintings showing twenty-one different positions (asanas). Written in Persian, the work was composed in Gujarat c. 1550 by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), a prominent Sufi, drawing from an earlier Arabic version (Pool of life, or Hawd al-hayat), of an original Sanskrit text (Amrita Kunda, now lost). This manuscript was produced in early seventeenth-century Mughal India: it is one of three yoga-related texts commissioned for prince Selim (the future Mughal emperor, Jahangir). The paintings are now detached from the codex, on twelve separately-mounted folios (also in the Chester Beatty collection). Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, 52 folios, Persian text in nasta`liq script, the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat), by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), unsigned, Allahabad, India, c. 1600-1604.

Materyal Paper (material), Leather (material), Ink (material), Pigment (material)

Nesne Adı Codex

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script