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My gifts to the Hon'ble Supreme Leader of Iran and to President Rouhani. https://t.co/KYl9yhPuT4

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 23, 2016

A glimpse of the PM’s gift to the Supreme Leader His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei. pic.twitter.com/dxryKNorzb

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) May 23, 2016

PM gifted a specially commissioned reproduction of a rare 7th century manuscript of the Holy Quran attributed to Hazrat Ali, the 4th caliph.

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Written in Kufic script, this manuscript is a prized possession of the Ministry of Culture’s Rampur Raza Library.

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Here are pictures of the gifts PM presented to the Iranian President Dr. Hassan Rouhani. pic.twitter.com/CDzciT2Yt5

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They are specially commissioned reproductions of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib’s collection of Persian poetry, Kulliyat-e-Farsi-e-Ghalib (1/2)

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) May 23, 2016

And Sumair Chand’s Persian translation of Ramayana. (2/2)

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First published in 1863, Kulliyat-e-Farsi-e-Ghalib is a collection of over 11,000 verses by Ghalib.

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The reproduction is from a rare copy of the book’s 1867 edition to which some missing pages have been added.

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) May 23, 2016

They have been added from a copy of the 1872 edition from Maulana Azad’s personal collection preserved in the library of ICCR in Delhi.

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) May 23, 2016

Translated into Persian in 1715 and copied in 1826, Sumair Chand’s Ramayana is a rare manuscript at the Rampur Raza Library.

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) May 23, 2016

It contains over 260 illustrations – possibly the largest number in any hand-written Ramayana manuscript. https://t.co/ZBtYZNUyZI

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) May 23, 2016