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# Box

Playing-cards, ganjifa. Pack of dasavatara cards in 10 suits of 12 cards in a wooden box (each suit is identified with one of the 10 avataras of Visnu). Painted and lacquered in shellac on paper.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1600–1850 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1935-0228-0-1-1-120](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1935-0228-0-1-1-120) · Pramāṇa
