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 11 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
Male deity with Vaiṣṇava attributes riding a horse.
Gouache on paper.

Rajasthan School
1790-1810 (circa)
India

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 11 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
Opaque watercolour painting of the Ranganatha temple at Srirangam, Tamil Nadu. At the centre of the painting is the vimana (main shrine) of the massive temple, but shown exaggeratedly large on account of the presence there of the image of the god - Viṣṇu lying on Ananta. At the top right of the p... Read More
 11 Jan 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
History of Sri Vaiṣṇavas
Sir Subrahmanya Ayyar lectures
By T.A.Gopinatha Rao
Printed by The Superintendent, Government Press, Madras - 1923


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Ramanuja had heard in Saka 1009 (931-932 AD) that the Cola king Senni Kulottunga had destroyed the Visnu temple at Chida... Read More
 11 Jan 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Vaishnavite Reformers of India - Critical sketches of their lives and writings
By T. Rajagopala Chariar
Published by G.A. Natesan & Co., Madras - 1909


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 11 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
Gouache painting on paper, part of an album of seventy paintings of Indian deities. Shri Ranganathasvami reclines on the fivehooded serpent Shesha (also known as Ananta), enshrined at the heart of the temple town of Srirangam. Above the reclining figure is Vibhishana, strewing flowers over his lo... Read More
 11 Jan 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Ekadashi Tatwam
By Mahamahopadhya Smarth Shri Raghunandan Bhattacharya
Published by Hughli Budhodayayantre,Budhuday Printing Press, Hooghly - 1894
In Sanskrit

A smriti text on Ekadashi observation for Hindus.

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 11 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
Gouache painting on paper, part of an album of seventy paintings of Indian deities. The deity Manmatha rides on a chariot drawn by a red parrot. On his forehead is a Vaishnava namam. He is dressed in courtly attire: an ample jacket is loosely tied at his waist with a cummerbund or sash and a shaw... Read More
 31 Dec 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Trident, the Crescent, and the Cross - A view of the religious history of India during the Hindu, Buddhist, Mohammedan, and Christian periods.
By Rev. James Vaughan
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London - 1876


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 29 Dec 2013 Rare Paintings
Brush drawing, Lakshmana preparing meal for Rama and Sita, ink on paper, Kangra, 19th century

Brush drawing in ink on paper, from a charcoal outline transferred from a pinhole stencil, Lakshman is preparing a meal for his brother Rama, and Sita. Lakshman bends over a log fire in rocky, wooded ... Read More
 26 Dec 2013 Rare Paintings
"Paithan" painting depicting the meeting of Hanumān and Sita in Ravana's garden which is shown as a toddy palm plantation as exists in Andhra Pradesh. The diminutive Hanumān has an extraordinarily long tail wound around the palmyra trees while he talks to Sita.

19th century
Karnataka

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 16 Dec 2013 Rare Photographs
Ariyankavu Temple - 1900

Photograph taken about 1900 by the Government photographer, Zacharias D'Cruz of the Shastha temple, Aryankavu in the erstwhile Travancore State. It is one of 76 prints in an album entitled 'Album of South Indian Views' of the Curzon Collection. George Nathaniel Curzon ... Read More
 15 Dec 2013 Rare Paintings
Bhairava, clad in an elephant skin and a tiger's hide, with the goddess Varahi seated on an elephant. He is pictured with his attributes of a drum, a corpse, a trident, a bowl, a stick and a deer in his six hands. The goddess is identified by her attributes of a plough, a sacred tree, an elephant... Read More
 15 Dec 2013 Rare Paintings
Śiva and Pārvatī with attendants.
Painted on paper

Pahari School
Rajasthan School
Kangra Style

19thC(early)

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 15 Dec 2013 Rare Paintings
Carved slab with Nagas - 1847

Pencil drawing by Frederick Charles Maisey of a carved slab with nagas, serpent deities, from Ranod in Madhya Pradesh. Inscribed: 'Ng Deo at Ranod on the bank of the Airwati about 100 yards SE of river near the Kirki leading to the Ghari', with notes. On reverse: ... Read More
 15 Dec 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Serpent and Siva worship and mythology, in Central America, Africa, and Asia.
And The origin of serpent worship.
Two treatises.
By Hyde Clarke and C. Staniland Wake
Edited by Alexander Wilder
Published by J. W. Bouton, New York - 1877


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 15 Dec 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Studies in Saiva-Siddhanta
By J.M.Nallasvami Pillai
Published by Meykandan Press, Madras - 1911


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Śiva riding his vehicle or mount, Nandi the bull. The river Ganga f... Read More
 15 Dec 2013 Sculpture
HARIHARA is the name of a combined deity form of both Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara) from the Hindu tradition. Also known as Shankaranarayana ("Shankara" is Shiva, and "Narayana" is Vishnu), Harihara is thus worshipped by both Vaishnavites and Shaivities as a form of the Supreme God, as well as b... Read More
 15 Dec 2013 Rare Photographs
Hariharesvara Temple, Harihar - 1855

Photograph of the Hariharesvara Temple at Harihar, taken by William Henry Pigou in 1855. The town of Harihar is situated on the right bank of the Thungabhadra river. The Harihareshvara temple is located in a large compound which includes the main temple and... Read More
 15 Dec 2013 Rare Paintings
Ardhanari, Harihara, Cave I, Badami - 1853

Pen-and-ink drawing of two sculptures from Cave I, Badami, depicting Harihara and Ardhanarishvara, by an Indian draftsman, dated 1853.

Badami, formerly known as Vatapi, was the capital of the Early Chalukya rulers in the sixth - eighth centuries AD... Read More
 13 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting, signs of the zodiac, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Jaipur, ca. 1890

Marks and inscriptions:
'The twelve signs of the zodiac according to the Hindus'

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 13 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
The dwelling places of the gods, the planets and signs of the zodiac, compiled for Jai Singh, taken from various Sanskrit texts.

Faizabad
ca. 1774
Watercolour

Gentil; Manuscripts, Col J B J Gentil, Faizabad, ca. 1774. Page number 51 (Gentil numbered two successive pages '22'). The dwelli... Read More