c. 1700 Sanskrit Double-sided Ink and Watercolor Leaf from Horoscope scalloped edge I just really like laying

I just really like laying them out on the table and moving them around

Pick is very well inserted

The leather ear covers (obscures) the painted eye one on side and there are hairline surface splits to the interiors of a couple legs

10 3/4" l x  x 1 1/2" w

5 1/2" x 15/16" x 15/16" and in very good condition

c. 1700 Sanskrit Double-sided Ink and Watercolor Leaf from Horoscope scalloped edge I just really like layingI'm happy when I find things accompanied by some specific information about them (how rare!); in the case of this Sanskrit manuscript page, a label on the mat I found with it dates it to around 1700, and identifies it as a leaf from a Brahmin's horoscope. Nice to know, at least abstractly, what is being charted here and that glorious orange and yellow suggests lots of fire:) but to this Western eye, uneducated in reading Sanskrit, it's a formally