Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.397

v2.c19.397

Wait! The text is mirrored! Let's trace: `o dance of` ... wait: `to ɘɔnɒb ɒ ϱniγnɒqmossɒ ƨnɒiɔiƨuM .dts̄ƨ-ītōdƆ ,Ā⅃Ī⅃-ƧĀЯ` -> "RĀS-LĪLĀ, Chōtī-sāṭh. Musicians accompanying a dance of" Yes! It is printed in reverse because this is the back side (verso) of a thin leaf of paper, or a tissue guard, or the scanner scanned the wrong side of a transparent/thin sheet! Notice: there is NO normal text on this side. What we are seeing is 100% bleed-through/show-through from the other side of the paper! Wait, on a plate leaf, often the back is blank, and what shows through from the front (recto) is the plate and caption printed on the recto! Because this page is a blank page showing the reverse side through the paper, should we transcribe what is printed on the recto (un-mirrored), or transcribe it as-is, or what? Wait, the instructions say: "Transcribe this scanned page of a scholarly book exactly as printed, in reading order." "Keep diacritics, Devanagari and other scripts, italics (word), Greek, and numbers exactly as printed. Do not translate, correct, complete or summarise anything. Output only the transcription."