Though I love temples I seldom get the chance to go to temples outside India. So I was very happy to get an invitation from my Japanese daughter to go to Indonesia to visit the ancient temples of Borobudur and Prambanan. Thus it happened that...
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Essay:
The History of Hinduism and Islam in Indonesia: A Review on Western Perspective
By Mohd. Zariat Abdul Rani
This article takes as its starting point the early observation that describes the vastness of the research corpus on the cultural history of Indonesia. The vastness of this corpu...
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Tinted plaster-cast from a series of sculptured stone panels illustrating the Gandavyuha along the chief wall of the second gallery in the great Buddhist stupa of Borobudur in the Kedu District of Central Java.
The subject represents a scene from the Ganavyuha, a treatise on (Buddhist) transce...
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HODGSONIA HETEROCLITA
This magnificent plant is one of the most curious and beautiful of the whole natural family to which it belongs, and was therefore selected by Dr. Thomson and myself to bear the name of E. H. Hodgson, Esq., E.L.S., of Dorjiling, in the Sikkim-Himalaya, a gentleman whose sci...
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Before the East India Company established trade in India, John Mildenhall, a merchant adventurer, was the first Englishment who arrived in India in 1599 by the over land route, ostensibly for purpose of trade with Indian merchants.
The Panchatantra, a collection of ancient Hindu tales in the recension, called Panchakhyanaka, and dated 1199 A.D of the Jaina monk, Purnabhadra.
Critically edited in the original Sanskrit by Dr. Johannes Hertel
Published by Harvard University - 1908
Francois Valentijn: Tabula Indiae Orientalis et Regnorum Adjacentium J. Van Braam et G. onder de Linden - 1724
Gorgeous full color example of this highly detailed map of Australia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, from Valentyn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, one of the earliest contemporary ma...
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Deshastha Brahmins (Marathi: देशस्थ ब्राह्मण, Kannada: ದೇಶಸ್ಥ ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣರು) are the original and the oldest Hindu Brahmin sub-caste mainly from the Indian state of Maharashtra and some districts of northern Karnataka. The word Deshastha comes from the Sanskrit words Desha and Stha which mean inland...
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Depending on the methods of counting, as many as three hundred[1][2] versions of the Indian epic poem, the Ramayana, are known to exist. The oldest version is generally recognized to be the Sanskrit version attributed to the sage Valmiki.
The young prince Mirza Javan Bakht, Shah Alam's eldest son, c.1786, in "Company School" style.
"A PORTRAIT OF PRINCE MIRZA JAWAN BAKHT, COMPANY SCHOOL, LUCKNOW, INDIA, CIRCA 1786; watercolour and gouache on card, with a seated figure dressed in white with green waist sash and turban, holding a s...
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Digital Rare Book :
My Travels in China, Japan and Java
By H.H. the Raja-i-Rajgan Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala
Published by Hutchinson & Co., London - 1905https://dailydigesthub.com">CLICK NOW!
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Rama and his allies begin the attack on Lanka, by Sahib Din.
From a manuscript of the Ramayana, Udaipur, 1652
It is difficult to exaggerate the influence of the story of Rama and of his quest for Sita on the whole of Indian and South-east Asian culture over more than two millennia, as Rama be...
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Pen and ink drawing of a sculpture of Lakshmi with Garuda at Jajpur in Orissa, by an anonymous artist, taken from an album of 37 drawings (43 folios) of sculpture at Jajpur, Puri, Bezwada and Sitanagar made during a journey from Bengal through Oris...
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Colonel Colin Mackenzie (1754–1821) was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist.
Mackenzie was born in Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. He produced many of the first accurate maps of India, and his research and collections contributed significantl...
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Fort Defiance (also called Tamkam) near Madura - June 1784
Watercolour painting of Fort Defiance near Madurai in Tamil Nadu, by Colin MacKenzie, dated June 1784. Inscribed on the front in ink is: 'Fort Defiance near Madura before it was repaired by Mr John(n)s (?)June 1784. C. McK.'
Intercourse between India and the western world from the earliest times to the fall of Rome.
By Rawlinson, H. G.
Cambridge : University Press, 1916.
PREFACE :
I HAVE attempted, in this monograph, to furnish a succinct account of the intercourse
between India and the Greco-Roman world fro...
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