India from 29th century BCE to 2016

India from 29th century BCE to 2016

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17 June 2016

Due to their extreme timescales, the Indus Valley and Vedic periods cannot be shown every year, although every year is shown from 413 BCE.

Tibetan Book of Proportions

> Notes: Black and colored ink on linen pages, with wooden boards. This eighteenth-century pattern book is written in Newari script with Tibetan numerals, and was apparently produced in Nepal for use in Tibet. It delineates, in 36 ink drawings, precise iconometric guidelines for depiction of the Buddha and Bodhisattva figures.

Mongolian Manual of Astrology and Divination

Basics of Mongolian Astrology > Early astronomical maps of nomadic tribes dating back to the Imperial Mongol period (13th to 14th centuries) describe over 1,000 stars, 12 zodiac constellations, 28 moon positions and the positions of the sun during the year’s twelve months and twenty-four seasons, not to mention