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 10 Aug 2014 Rare Paintings
Urghai [Arghya], offering of water, rice, &c.&c.

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The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins.
Illustrated in a series of original drawings from nature, demonstrating their attitudes and different signs and figures performed by them during the ceremonies of their morning de... Read More
 10 Aug 2014 Rare Paintings
Mudras
Notes: (1) moostic [mushtika], (2) burahaka [bruhaka], (3) moodgur [mudgara], (4) mutsai, (5) singha krantee, (6) pulla, (7) bista, thun.

From the book -
The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins.
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 10 Aug 2014 Rare Paintings
1. Pooruck Pranaiyam [Puraka pranayama].
2. Kumbuck [Kumbhaka].
3. Raichuck [Rechaka]

From the book -
The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins.
Illustrated in a series of original drawings from nature, demonstrating their attitudes and different signs and figures performed by them du... Read More
 10 Aug 2014 Rare Paintings
Mudras
Notes: (1) sucktum, (2) soonmooka, (3) admookum, (4) byapuckum, (5) jummapas, (6) khurmookum, (7) ekmookum, (8) unjailee, (9) purlumb.

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The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins.
Illustrated in a series of original drawings from nature, demonstrating their attitude... Read More
 10 Aug 2014 Rare Paintings
Koorma [Kurma] (Tortoise). The figure here indicated by the fingers is meant to represent it.

From the book -
The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins.
Illustrated in a series of original drawings from nature, demonstrating their attitudes and different signs and figures performed by t... Read More
 10 Aug 2014 Rare Paintings
Gungashtuk [Gangashtaka]

From the book -
The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins.
Illustrated in a series of original drawings from nature, demonstrating their attitudes and different signs and figures performed by them during the ceremonies of their morning devotions, and likewise th... Read More
 10 Aug 2014 Rare BOOKS
Rare Book Reprint:
The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins.
Illustrated in a series of original drawings from nature, demonstrating their attitudes and different signs and figures performed by them during the ceremonies of their morning devotions, and likewise their poojas.
By Mrs. Sop... Read More
 10 Aug 2014 Rare BOOKS
Sandhyavandana
With the Bhashya of Vedanti Sitaram Sastri
Edited by Dewan Bahadur T.R.Ramachandra Iyer and C. Sankara Rama Sastri
Published by Sri Balamanorama Press, Madras - 1931

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The Su... Read More
 6 Jul 2014 Rare Paintings
The Great Bull and Pagoda at Tanjore
By William Daniell, 1769–1837

Gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

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 29 Jun 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Naradiya Dharmasastra of the Institutes of Narada
Translated for the first time from unpublished Sanskrit original
By Dr. Julius Jolly
Published by Trubner & Co, London - 1876

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Narada Mun... Read More
 26 Jun 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Agastya in the Tamil land
By K.N. Sivaraja Pillai
Published by The University of Madras - 1923

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Agastya Muni
By Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840 and
William Daniell, 1769–1837

Brown wash with... Read More
 8 Jun 2014 Rare Paintings
Krishna protecting the shepherds from the vengence of Indra, who threatened to drown them for forsaking his worship and adoring Krishna.

Drawing in black ink on European watermarked paper. Kṛṣṇa holding Mount Govardhana aloft over the gopas and gopis (male and female cowherders) of Vrindavan, an... Read More
 8 Jun 2014 Rare Paintings
Indra

Gouache painting on paper from a portfolio of sixty-three paintings of deities and daily life. The deity Indra sits with his consort, Indraṇī, on the back of their white elephant, Airāvata. This animal has four tusks, although generally it is supposed to have six, and carries in his trunk ... Read More
 8 Jun 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Life in ancient India in the age of the mantras
By P.T.Srinivasa Iyengar
Published by Srinivasa Varadachari & Co., Madras - 1912

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Sri Yantra
'Yantra' or metal plaque covered with 'mantra... Read More
 1 Jun 2014 Rare Paintings
Three religious mendicant couples, from a volume containing thirty folios depicting castes, occupations, methods of cultivation and processions, Tanjore, ca. 1830

Painting; gouache and watercolour.

Painting, watercolour and gouache on paper from a folio of thirty Company paintings, depicting th... Read More
 1 Jun 2014 Rare Paintings
Four male ascetics, From a volume containing thirty folios depicting castes, occupations, methods of cultivation and procession scenes, Tanjore, ca. 1830

Painting; gouache and watercolour.

Four male ascetics:
1. A Bhairagi (Vaishnavite devotee), in a loin cloth, carrying a lota and a rosary. ... Read More
 24 May 2014 Rare Paintings
Durga on a lion confronting a demon, by the artist Punch, opaque watercolour on paper, Kashmir, ca. 1750

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 24 May 2014 Rare Paintings
Devotees worshipping at a Hindu shrine
India, probably Kashmir
19th century

Painted in opaque watercolour on paper.

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 23 May 2014 Sculpture
Standing figure of Vishnu
Styone Shale
Kashmir, 9th century AD

Standing figure of Vishnu. It is broken at the thighs and lower part is now missing. The arms are also broken and partly missing.

The halo is broken except on the left side where it is penetrated by a small hole. The figure has a s... Read More
 23 May 2014 Sculpture
Vishnu Chaturmurti
Karkota period - 8th to 9th century AD
Kashmir

Sculptural representations of Vishnu Chaturmurti exist throughout northern India but is most characteristic of the Kashmir region where it assumed a prominent position in the Hindu pantheon.

Vishnu in his four-fold aspect, Chatur... Read More
 23 May 2014 Rare Photographs
Ruins of the Temple of Martand, Kashmir - 8th century AD

Photograph of the ruins of Martand from the 'Strachey Collection of Indian Views', taken by Samuel Bourne in 1864.This Hindu temple to the sun deity was built by Lalitaditya (c.724-60), the most powerful and renowned monarch of the Karkota... Read More