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Abhimanyu Hunting in a Forest from Mahabharata
ca. 1885 painting from Maharashtra @smithsonian ?
Paithan chitrakhani or chitrakathi? I thought were popular folk painting style for #storytelling
May be as area was Deccan thus it's deccani Art famous in AP, north Karnataka & MH
Maharana Jagat Singh attending Raslila, 1736 painting attributed to Jai Ram &/or Jiva, from Mewar, Udaipur @ClevelandArt
celebrate New Year festival of #Diwali, dancers reenact Krishna leela by candlelight under full moon
Lady with Flower and Fly Whisk’
Mughal painting, c. 1630 David Collection
Transparent jama, peshwaz, angrakha? What's correct name of dress? Even though parda was there in mughal harem, still many portraits show women
all wearing traditional pahari #jewellery large Nath or Nathni नथ नथनी
Bajuband, mathatika?
peshwaz? Jama, the dress or costume
Beautifull painting, strange too
Recreation. A lady being entertained by women musicians or Usha sending her maid to find Aniruddh
Pahari Painting, Kangra style, 18th century @britishmuseum
maid flys with been (Veena?) as if she will use Magical powers of Sound of Music
Maharao Ram Singh II arrives at Udaipur palace for his marriage to sister of Maharana Sarup Singh
painting from Kota, probably 1851 @AshmoleanMuseum
often daughters were centre of fights-frictions among rulers, do you know any incident?
Illustration from Markandey puran, Devi Durga Mahishasur mardini devi fights with demons rakshaks
Jaipur, circa 1830 painting at @bonhams1793 auctions
Paintings illustration from Devi Mahatmya देवी दुर्गा दानवों संघ संघर्ष करते हुए चित्रण Devi Durga fighting demons @Sothebys lot332
Demons in various forms came to fight, identify? One seems on pig?
देवी दुर्गा महिषासुर मर्दिनी
Devi Durga fight Mahishasur
Handcoloured engravings by Frederic Shoberl from his work 'The World in Miniature: Hindoostan'. London: R. Ackerman, 1820'