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Founding of the Anup Sanskrit Library(1675 – 1698)

Maharaja Anup Singh assembled Sanskrit manuscripts throughout his Deccan campaigns and founded the Anup Sanskrit Library at Bikaner — among the major manuscript collections of seventeenth-century India.

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Founded by Maharaja Anup Singh during and after his Deccan campaigns
  • Manuscripts collected across the Deccan and carried back to Bikaner
  • One of the significant Sanskrit manuscript collections of seventeenth-century India
  • Still held at Bikaner
  • Part of a wider court patronage that also shaped the Bikaner school of painting
  • Built on a foundation laid by his father Karan Singh, himself an author and patron

    • Participants

    • Maharaja Anup Singh of Bikaner

      Founder and collector

      Maharaja Anup Singh of Bikaner

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      Founder and collector

      30s at event

      Maharaja Anup Singh of Bikaner

      Tenth ruler of Bikaner, 1669–1698, and the first styled Maharaja. Led the Mughal charge at the fall of Golconda in 1687 and founded the Anup Sanskrit Library.

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      Bikaner

      Bikaner

      Walled desert city founded in 1488 by Rao Bika; capital of Bikaner State until 1947.

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      Bikaner (Rathor Kingdom)

      Bikaner (Rathor Kingdom)

      Rathor Rajput kingdom of the Thar desert. Watan-jagir vassal of the Mughals from 1570 under Rai Singh.

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    Start
    1675s
    End
    1698
    Tags
    Bikaner, Anup Singh, manuscripts, Sanskrit, library, patronage, Deccan

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    Start
    1675s
    End
    1698
    Tags
    Bikaner, Anup Singh, manuscripts, Sanskrit, library, patronage, Deccan

    Significance · CULTURAL

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