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Mahasiddha (Great Adept) Vanaratna (1384-1468) Receiving Abhishekha (Initiation) from Sita Tara (White Tara)
Nepal, Patan, Pintu Bahi, dated 1469, Paintings @LACMA
other sources say Vanaratna’s Wife Distributing Alms?
is there any related legend in India?

योगेश्वर Yogeshwar
Shiva in eight yogic postures, Painting from Murshidabad sub-style, late 18th century @V_and_A
#yoga #yogic #yogasana traditional Indian method of exercise & to make oneself for spiritual enlightment

Thread Makers or yarn making
Patna kalam? 1824; from a series of Company School paintings of crafts
What yarn he is making? Name of method?
#TextileofIndia

Yoga & Ayurved had been in practice since centuries, people did pooja regularly with many rituals involved including few आसन today known as Yogasan, postures hand gestures
1. Yogasan from @ExploreWellcome
2. Surya pooja from "Sandhya" compilation of paintings of Mrs SC Belnos

Brahminy Starling with Two Anteraea Moths, Caterpillar and Cocoon on an Indian Jujube Tree
Painting by Shaikh Zain ud-Din,
Impey Album, Calcutta, 1777
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Nautch girl of Ulwur (Alwar) an engraving from 'India and its Native Princes' by Louis Rousselet, 1878
& Dance girl from Mewat
in both dress were elaborate, beautifull
& highlight art of performers

A Cobra Lily, c. 1821 Painting by Vishnupersaud
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

A Fisher Woman of Bombay
Painting by M. V. Dhurandhar
she is making yarn from cotton, what's that called? कतली तकली? Used to spin the cotton fibres to make it yarn

Lady at bath
Lith. de J.J. Belnos

Ablutions of a young Woman of rank on banks of Ganges. bathing at Ganga in Bengal
From Hindoo & European Manners in Bengal  (1832) by
Sophie Charlotte Belnos and Alexandre-Marie Colin

Belnos
Feast of the Churruck Poojah.
Celebration of charak or churruck pooja in Bengal
1832