Lokinder Bishtさんのイラストまとめ

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

#Nainsukh 1730; A firework display. #Diwali festivity.

#LaurenceBinyon in J.C. French’s Himalayan Art:

“But it would be, I think, a mistake to imply that the Kangra Artists derived their style from their contemporaries of the Moghul painters. Their style is their own,.....1/2

#Manaku; Guler 1740, #BhagavatPuran Series; At Rajasthan Orient Resrh. Inst..
Daksha Prajapati with his 14 daughters. A ‘Manasputra’, mind created son of Brahma, he is the agent of creation.13 daughters married to Dharma, 1 to Agni, 1 to Pitris & One - Sati chose Shiva. #RigVeda

The Meeting of the Eyes; #Manaku 1750 at Guler. One of the three paintings where Manaku’s name is inscribed; “Manaku ki likhi” (Painted by Manaku)

At SDMA

#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

#Kangra 1780; Shiva and Parvati

“They don't know the day is the dark's face,
and dark the day's.
A necklace of nine jewels lies buried, intact, in the face of the night;
in the face of day a tree
with leaves of nine designs. - cont 1/2

#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