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 17 Mar 2014 Rare Paintings
Kṛṣṇa celebrating the Holi festival with men and women.

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

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 17 Mar 2014 Rare Paintings
Krishna and Balarama celebrating holi with Radha, squirting orange and yellow dye from a palace courtyard up at Radha and the gopis standing at windows above.

Kangra, circa 1810-20

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 15 Mar 2014 Rare Paintings
An ascetic, probably Vasishtha, with a rudrakshamala (rosary) in his hand, sits on a tiger skin in a pavilion with a carefully rendered roof supported by slender pillars. His knees are held in place by a yogapatta (band tied around the knees). He wears a russet dhoti and ornaments made of rudraks... Read More
 27 Feb 2014 Rare Paintings
Pahari school miniature painting
Punjab Hills, 19th Century

Framed and glazed; opaque water colors on paper; circa 1840-1850, finely detailed depicting Shiva and Parvati with Ganesha and Skanda happily seated together upon a tiger rug on Mount Kailasa, Shiva's matted hair encircling them and for... Read More
 27 Feb 2014
Shiva Lingam Stone

Narmada River
Central Highland
India

Collected in the Narmada River as sacred stones by Hindus for over 4,000 years, lingams are ancient sacred objects. As symbols of Shiva, they are believed to impart powers of fertility. According to local belief, lingams were marked by a m... Read More
 27 Feb 2014 Rare Paintings
Illustration to a Krishna Rukmini series: Krishna and Shiva meet.

Garhwal, circa 1840

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; Krishna drawn in chariot with attendants and soldiers meeting Siva approaching on Nandi. The foreground is littered with slain combatants.

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 27 Feb 2014 Sculpture
Shiva as Nataraja in the caves of Elephanta

Photograph

1895 - 1915 ca

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 27 Feb 2014 Rare Paintings
Miniature painting of a woman who is performing Linga puja.

1750 - 1800 ca.

India

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 8 Feb 2014 Rare Paintings
Illustration from the book:

Indian Pictures
Drawn with pen and pencil
By the Rev. W. Urwick
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 15 Jan 2014 Article/Essay
Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple, Bangalore

As if making monolithic rock-cut temples is not complex enough, ancient Indian architects and stone cutters outclassed themselves when making the Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple in 9th century AD. The temple has been planned in a such a way that sunrays illum... Read More
 14 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
Water-colour drawing by Justinian Gantz of pilgrims and Hindu ascetics, Madras, dated 1841. Inscribed on front in ink: 'Pilgrims, Sainashees, Bairaghees, Pandarams. Just Gantz. Popham's Broadway. No.35. Madras 1841.'

This drawing depicts a group of Hindu pilgrims and ascetics. The horizontal w... Read More
 14 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
Water-colour by Justinian Gantz, The Teppakkulam or Raft Festival, Madras, 1841. Inscribed on front in ink: 'Teppel Colum, or Tank-feast. Just Gantz. Popham's Broadway. No.35. Madras, 1841.' The Tamil word 'Teppam or Teppal' means 'raft', and 'kulam' is the 'pool' in which the deity floats on the... Read More
 12 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
Three religious mendicant couples
Thanjavur
ca. 1830

Painting, watercolour and gouache on paper from a folio of thirty Company paintings, depicting three religious mendicant couples:

1. A non-Brahmin Vaishnavite couple, followers of the philosopher Ramanuja, founder of Shrivaishnavism; ... Read More
 12 Jan 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Sri-Bhashya of Ramanujacharya
Translated by M.Rangacharya and M.B. Varadaraja Aiyangar
Published by Bramhavadin Press, Madras - 1899


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 12 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
Painting; gouache on mica, A Vaishnava mendicant of Vizagapatam of the Satani caste of the Ramanujas, Trichinopoly, ca.1850

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 12 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
Painting; Gouache, A South Indian Vaishnava Brahmin and his wife, Tanjore, ca. 1790

One of sixteen paintings of castes and occupations. The backgrounds are all plain with no clouds. The set appears to include drawings by two hands; one group with plain blue backgrounds, the other dull yellow; ... Read More
 12 Jan 2014
Brahmanical temple cloth of coarse cotton fabric painted, chiefly in red and black, with Vaishnava subjects illustrating the incarnations (avatares) of the Hindu deity Vishnu.

18th century
Tamil Nadu, India

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 11 Jan 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Teachings of Vedanta according to Ramanuja
By Vasudev Anant Sukhtankar
Published by Druck Von Adolf Holzhausen, Vienna - 1908

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Opaque watercolour painting of a saint seated on a thr... Read More
 11 Jan 2014 Rare Photographs
Print from an album of 41 albumen prints by Edmund David Lyon. Lyon wrote, 'About five miles from Tripatoor is situated Tircoostioor, a small village, with a very fine tank in front of the temple, as shown in this view' - 1868.

The Vishnu temple of Tirukkoshtiyur (Tirukkotiyur) is about 10 kms... Read More
 11 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
Gouache painting on paper from a portfolio of sixty-three paintings of deities and daily life. Nammalvar sits in lalitasana on a low asana placed on a platform. His complexion is blue, he wears a headdress, the chayakkontai, and Tengalai namams (emblems) are drawn on his forehead throat, arms and... Read More
 11 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
Gouache painting on paper from a set of eight paintings of deities and processional scenes. The metal image of Vishnu as Ranganatha carried in procession at the great temple at Srirangam. The devotees carry an image of the god as a warrior on horseback. The elephant at the front of the procession... Read More