Lokinder Bishtさんのイラストまとめ

Lion with a Female Face, 18th c. #Bilaspur At Philadelphia Museum

#Manaku From Bhagavata Purana Series, 1740; The power of darkness; Brahma creates ghosts and goblins and creatures that we might think belong to the imagination. At State Museum, Lucknow

#Chamba 1760; Lord #Shiva smeared with ash. At Cleaveland Museum
“I am the Brahman alone, which remains after the illusion of the existence of anything except that the self has been reduced to ashes by the fire at the time of dawning of right knowledge” - Bhasmajabala #Upanishad

#Krishna holds #Govardhan Parvat to shield the people of #Braj from the tyranny of #Indra. From #Harivamsa Puran; #Mughal 1590, Lahore. At MetMuseum
@ssharadmohhan @PunjabiRooh

Guler 18th C; Vishnu with Lakshmi. After the Yog Nidra. At Reitberg Museum.
“This soul is of its own nature,
pure, composed of happiness and wisdom.
The properties of pain, ignorance and impurity,
are those of Prakriti, not of soul.”

—Vishnu Purana

Pure #Himalayas & #Himachal

-Lithographs Image by WLL Smith 1850s:
1. #Simla fm Jakhu Hill above Walsingham Lodge
2. #Narkanda View fm Staging Bungalow
3. View at #Theog fm the schoolhouse built by the Wilkinson.
- Aquatint of 1820 by Fraser; Jnctn of River #Pubbar and #Tonk

Preparation for a #Sati of a Hindu woman on death of her husband. - sketch by Robert Melville Grindlay, 1803-26. Grindlay came to India in 1803 and became a lieutenant with the 7th Bombay native infantry. He later founded the #GrindlaysBank. British Library.

#Simla #Lithographs Four Views made by a British Lady Mrs.WLL Scott in 1850-52
1. Elysium Hill with #SterlingCastle and #Auckland House
2. #JakhooHill and Simla Cantonment area
3. #TaraDevi Temple
4. People dancing in front of Tara Devi Temple
#HimachalPradesh

#BhimakaliTemple at #Sarahan, #Himachal. A summer residence/capital of the erstwhile #Bushair rajas.This coloured “#aquatint” was made by Robert Havell & Son from the image made by James and William Fraser in 1815.

#Bilaspur 1740 #Vishwaroopa at SDMA; The #Cosmic form:
“Purusha is both immanent in the manifested world and yet transcendent to it. This causes the projection of the universe in space and time.” fm #PurushaSuktam of #RigVeda ~1500BCE
@ssharadmohhan @dpanikkar @Go_Movie_Mango