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Kamadev/Manamatha - God of love and desire,He carries a bow made of sugarcane ( represents mind ) and bow string is made of bees along with five arrows of flowers
depicted as dark and handsome with mischievous eyes. rides a parrot, red beak and green feathers represent desires.

6.Vallabhacharya - Vallabhacharya (1479-1531 C.E.) was a devotional philosopher, who founded the Pushti sect in India.

7. Maharshi Valmiki - was a great sage who wrote the epic Ramayana in Sanskrit which consists of 24k verses and 7 cantos including the Uttara canto.

2. Ramanuja - Shri Ramanuja Acharya (1017-1137 C.E.)was a great Hindu philosopher and thinker. He is the most venerated Acharya in the philosophy of Sri Vaishnavism

3.Madhvacharya -Shri Madhvacharya (1238-1317 C.E.)was the proponent of Dvaita Vedanta/ the Philosophy of Reality.

and black rules, and dark green borders, the recto with fainted stamped annotations "Muhammad Ali, Jaipur", excluding the mount. Mirabai was one of the central poet-saints of the 16th-century Bhakti movement and all her poems (bhajan) advocate for a personal, almost intimate
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SACRIFICE:Sati is mentioned in Greek literature from around 300BCE,but it most likely developed into an actual fire sacrifice in the mediaeval era among the northwestern Rajput clans,where it remained confined,before becoming more popular in the late mediaeval age
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tens of thousands of illustrations

Here are some of them

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Vasantasenā by Raja Ravi Varma
Portrait of the courtesan Vasanthasena, famously depicted in Śūdraka's Sankrit play Mṛcchakaṭika(The Little Clay Cart).
Oleographic print
Courtesan was a multi-talented woman with a wide range of abilities. she was largely to entertain the nobilit

The occasion, according to the Hindu calendar, falls on the Shukla Paksha on the Navami date in the lunar month of Vaishaka, which is May-June. According to mythology, Goddess Sita was found by King Janak while he was ploughing the fields,
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For £20,160, a European 'crusader' fighting a warrior sold above its estimate. It's a stunning example of Mughal artistic aesthetic hybridity at the turn of the century. The horse rider appears to be based on a European poster and is set against a countryside.
-Sotheby's, 30/3/22

Shiva has many manifestations, he can be benign in one aspect and fierce in another
-Parvati offers a cup of bhang to an intoxicated Shiva, ca. 1790-1800 ©Sotheby's

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