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 12 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Zodiac signs:
Ram(Mesha), Bull(Vrishabha), Couple(Mithuna), Crab(Karkataka)

Gouache on paper
Rajasthan School
1790-1810 (circa)

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 12 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Zodiac signs:
Tiger(Simha), Woman(Kanya), Scales(Tula), Scorpion(Vrishcika)

Gouache on paper
Rajasthan School
1790-1810 (circa)

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 5 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
A planetary deity (Mars, or Mangala) flanked by Kārttikeya on his peacock, and Lakshmi seated on a lotus borne aloft by four elephants.

Gouache painting on paper.

Attributed to: Mahesh (1725-1750 AD)

Pahari School
Chamba Style
1725-1750 (circa)
Panjab Hills

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 3 Nov 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Rites of the Twice-born
By Mrs. Sinclair Stevenson
Published by Humphrey Milford, London - 1920


Read Book Online:

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 2 Nov 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Hindu Feasts, Fasts and Ceremonies
By S.M. Natesa Sastri
With an introduction by Henry K. Beauchamp
Printed at The M.E. Publishing House, Madras - 1903

Book Extract:
On the day of the Dipavali feast every Hindu gets up at about 4 o'clock in the morning and bathes in oil befor... Read More
 2 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā playing with fireworks.

Gouache painting on paper.
Rajasthan School
1800 (circa)

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 2 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Women with lanterns and fireworks celebrating the festival of Diwali.

Gouache painting on paper.

By Nainsukh
Pahari School
Guler Style
1760-1763 (circa)

Nainsukh (painter/draughtsman; Indian; Male; 1710 - 1778; approx)

Also known as: Nainsukh; Nain Sukh

Biography:
Painter; ... Read More
 2 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Women with lanterns and fireworks celebrating the festival of Diwali.

Drawing on paper.

Attributed to a follower of Nainsukh
Pahari School
Guler Style
1760 (circa)

The term 'Pahari School' refers to paintings created in the small Rajput courts of the Punjab Hills. While the Pahari region w... Read More
 2 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
The month of Kartika - October/November

One of a series of eight paintings bound in an album. The series are from a 'Baramasa' set or 'Songs of the seasons' providing visual imagery for Baramasa poetry. The main theme is that of nayakas' and nayikas' (lovers) love in union and in separation an... Read More
 2 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Trivikrama Vishnu and Varaha, Cave II, Badami - 1853

Pen-and-ink and wash drawing of two sculptures of Vishnu as Trivikrama and Varaha from Cave II, Badami, by and Indian draftsman, dated 1853.

The two sculpture panels represented in this drawing are carved inside the porch of Cave II at Ba... Read More
 2 Nov 2013 Sculpture
Sculpture of Vishnu as Trivikrama in the north verandah of Cave II, Badami, Bijapur District - 1874

Photograph of a sculpture of Vishnu as Trivikrama in the north verandah of Cave 2 at Badami, taken by James Burgess in 1874. Badami, formerly known as Vatapi, was the capital of the early Chaluk... Read More
 2 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Diwali, the Festival of Light - 1867

This chromolithograph is taken from plate 50 of William Simpson's 'India: Ancient and Modern'. The picture is suffused with the yellow glow of lamps in the gathering dusk; a woman is pictured leaning to light a lamp in a little niche at a street corner.

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 13 Oct 2013 Sculpture
Sculpture of Durga as Mahishasuramardini
11th century
India

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 13 Oct 2013 Sculpture
Durga as Mahishasuramardini
12th century

Pala-Sena dynasty

Brass
H: 15.7 W: 10.1 D: 8.2 cm
Bangladesh

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 13 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
Durga fighting the rakshashas Shunga and Nishunga, from a Devi Mahatmya

Mid 19th century
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
H: 27.3 W: 38.0 cm
Punjab Hills, India

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 13 Oct 2013 Sculpture
Durga slaying the Buffalo
9th century

Central Javanese Period

Stone
Java, Indonesia

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 13 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Colour lithograph, lettered, inscribed and numbered 28. The goddess Jagadhatri is seen complete with all her iconographical signs: her four hands display a conch, a discus, a shaft, and a bow. She is portrayed upon her lion mount; the lion is astrid... Read More
 13 Oct 2013 Sculpture
Figure of Durga slaying the Buffalo-demon
Deccan Plateau
Late 9th century - early 10th century AD

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 13 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
Gouache painting on paper from a portfolio of sixty-three paintings of deities and daily life. Durgā, of green complexion and with eight arms, rides on her vehicle. Although the body of the animal is similar to that of a large feline, its head with round, bulging eyes, beak-like nose, curly ruff... Read More
 6 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE BHAGAVATA PURANA: KRISHNA ABOUT TO ABDUCT RUKMINI FROM THE GODDESS'S SHRINE ON THE HILL, MEWAR, CIRCA 1600-20

Gouache on paper, blank panels at either side, margin rules in green, yellow and red, margins of buff paper, reverse with 14 lines of text in devanagari

Painting... Read More
 1 Oct 2013 Article/Essay
The Sri Lankan version...

A SHORT HISTORY OF HELADIVA

In the world map Sri Lanka (Heladiva) is in latitude 5.55 to 9.51 east. It’s in length and breadth is 432 and 224 kilometres respectively and in area is 65,525 square kilometres. The southwest monsoon starts in May and ends in September ... Read More