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 23 May 2014 Rare Photographs
Temple of Jyeshteshwara [Shankaracharya], on the Takht-i-Suliman Hill, near Srinagar. Probable date 220 B.C.

Photograph of the Shankaracharya Temple on the summit of Takht-i-Suleiman (Throne of Solomon), near Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, taken by John Burke in 1868. This view was reproduced in... Read More
 23 May 2014 Rare Photographs
Group of temples near the village of Wangut in the Scind Valley, Kashmir - 8th century AD

Photograph of a temple at Wangat, Jammu and Kashmir, taken by John Burke in 1868. This photograph is reproduced in Henry Hardy Cole's Archaeological Survey of India report, 'Illustrations of Ancient Buildin... Read More
 17 May 2014 Rare Paintings
Dashashvamedha Ghat, Benares - 1796

Plate 16 from the first set of Thomas Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery.' Dasasvamedha Ghat is one of the five most sacred places of pilgrimage in Benares as it is believed that it was here the god Brahma performed ten ('das') horse-sacrifices ('asva-medha') for kin... Read More
 16 May 2014 Sculpture
A sandstone figural relief of Surya
Central India, 10th/11th Century

The solar deity standing in a frontal hieratic pose with both hands raised and holding a stylized blossoms, a small figure of his consort standing between his boots and accompanied by his two sons Shani and Yama standing on the... Read More
 16 May 2014 Rare Paintings
A nobleman worshipping Surya riding a horse-drawn chariot across the sky
Mewar, circa 1760
Gouache on paper, red and yellow borders, framed

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 16 May 2014 Rare Paintings
Surya in chariot
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Rajasthan, ca. 1800

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 5 May 2014 Rare Paintings
Gouache and ink painting from an album of 26 depicting scenes of Hindu mythology in a variety of painting styles. Viṣṇu is riding his vehicle Garuda. In each of Viṣṇu's four hands he carries an attribute associated with the god: a conch, a chakra (wheel), a lotus flower and a mace.

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 5 May 2014 Sculpture
The Hindu God Vishnu on His Mount Garuda

Nepal, 7th century
Sculpture
Gray-black argillite

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 5 May 2014 Rare Paintings
Viṣṇu on Garuda addressing Visvamitra, Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa.
An illustration from the Ramayana.

Gouache painting on paper.
1800-1805 ca.

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 4 May 2014 Article/Essay
Article:
Vultures continue to give a miss to a temple in Tamil Nadu
Deccan Herald, May 03, 2014

Some 14 years ago, newspapers published a report stating sick vultures were being taken by an Indian Airlines flight from Jaipur to Mumbai for finding out the reason, why most of the vultures in India... Read More
 27 Apr 2014 Rare Paintings
'Toolsesham in the Gheer. Kattywar. Hot Springs, 6th April 1869'

Water-colour painting of a temple with hot springs in Kathiawar by John Frederick Lester (1825-1915), 6th April 1869. This image is from an album of 30 watercolours made between 1865 and 1877 in Kathiawar, Bombay, Poona, Mahabalesh... Read More
 24 Apr 2014 Rare Photographs
Parbati Temple, Poona
1850s to 1870s
Photographed by Francis Frith, born 1822 - died 1898

Whole-plate albumen print from wet collodion glass negative

Francis Frith was one of the most successful commercial photographers from the 1850s and 1860s. He also established what was to become the larges... Read More
 19 Apr 2014 Rare Photographs
Walkeshwar, Bombay - 1855

A photograph of the Walukeshwar temple in Maharashtra from the 'Vibart Collection of Views in South India' taken by an unknown photographer about 1860. The kings of the Silhara dynasty who ruled Bombay from the 9th to the 13th Centuries originally built Walkeshar Temple... Read More
 5 Apr 2014 Rare Paintings
Illustration from the book:

Indian Myth and Legend
By Donald A. Mackenzie
With illustrations in in colour by Warwick Goble
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 24 Mar 2014 Rare Paintings
Mewar Ramayana

Battle between the armies of Rama and the King of Lanka, Udaipur, 1649-53.

The Ramayana manuscript of the text was copied in seven large volumes in 'nagari' script by Mahatma Hirananda between 1649 and 1653, and illuminated by Sahib Din, Manohar, and other artists in the court st... Read More
 23 Mar 2014 Rare Paintings
Meeting of Rama and Parushurama Folio from a set of Ramayana.
Dated: Samvat 1706 = A.D.1649 Rajasthani, Udaipur .
Artist : Manohar
Painting: 31 x 18 cms

The Museum acquired nineteen folios of a dispersed Ramayana set painted during the patronage of Maharana Jagat Singh I (1628-52 A.D. ), whose... Read More
 22 Mar 2014 Rare Paintings
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The Mewar Ramayana

Welcome to one of the world's most beautiful Ramayana manuscripts. The original was prepared for Maharana Jagat Singh, the ruler of the Rajput kingdom of Mewar in Rajasthan, in the middle of the seventeenth century.

Most volumes of the manuscript are now in the B... Read More
 22 Mar 2014 Rare Manuscripts
Article:
The Mewar Ramayana at the British Library in London
By Asha Kasbekar

Commissioned by Rana Jagat Singh of Mewar (1628–52), who as a Kshatriya and suryavanshi regarded himself a direct descendent of Lord Rama, the Mewar Ramayana is a collection of over 400 paintings in seven volumes produ... Read More
 22 Mar 2014 Rare Manuscripts
Article:
Hidden for 164 years, Mewar Ramayana paintings dazzle London
By Dipankar De Sarkar, IANS

London : Hidden away in the vaults of the British Museum for 164 years, more than 100 stunning paintings from the Ramayana, dating back to the 17th century, went on public display Friday at the Brit... Read More
 18 Mar 2014 Rare Photographs
The Great Temple, Jhalrapatan - 1860

Photograph from an album of 80 albumen prints taken by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey. Modern Jhalrapatan, in the Jhalawar region of Rajasthan, was founded by the side of an artificial lake in 1796, close to an old site, by Zalim Singh the chief of Jhalawar, and be... Read More
 17 Mar 2014 Rare Paintings
Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā celebrating the Holi festival.

Painted on Paper.
Pahari School
Kangra Style
1800 (circa)
Panjab Hills

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