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This folio is in a state of extreme deterioration. The primary text, written in the Devanagari script used for Sanskrit, has suffered from "bleed-through"—a process where ink from the back of the page seeps through to the front—making the original writing nearly impossible to distinguish from the mirrored shadows of the reverse side.
[The main body of the page consists of approximately 28 lines of Sanskrit text. Unfortunately, due to severe fading and heavy ink bleed-through from the other side of the leaf, the specific contents and subject matter of these lines cannot be deciphered.] ? Bottom rightShri Veer Library Original: "Shri Veer Pustakalaya." This is the name of the archival collection within the Raghunath Temple.
No. 584? Likely a catalog or acquisition number.
Shri Raghunath Ji Refers to the deity of the Raghunath Temple in Jammu, under whose name the library was established.
The purple ink stamps seen here are typical of 19th and 20th-century Indian institutional archiving, used by the Dharmartha Trust to manage the vast collection of over 5,000 manuscripts at the Raghunath Temple Library.