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captioned "A Hindoo female" but she is from Kerala
Illustrator: William Daniell; Taylor
Image taken from The Oriental Annual, etc. [1834-1838]. By J. H. Caunter, Originally published/produced in London, 1834-40 @britishlibrary

How many directions?
In our Bhartiya Parampara all directions are worshipped & have Dikpal
अष्टदिकपाल palak or God of 8 directions?
Indra Agni Yam niritti Varun Vayu Kuber Ishan? Are they in Vashtupurush of vashtushashtra
Painting, Karaikal Tanjore 1727 @GallicaBnF
वास्तु

Linen Market with a Linen-stall and Vegetable Seller in the West Indies
Painting by Agostino Brunias, Italian painter,
ca. 1780, Oil on canvas @YaleBritishArt
wherever white race stepped racism, division started? disparity of natural resources too

Shakti of Shiva in her form as Devi Durga Mahishasurmardini, company painting from Trichinopoly or Tiruchchirappalli, ca. 1825 @V_and_A
Tiruchi or Trichy? in TN
Devi slaying demon Mahishasur

Krishna & Arjuna who was charioteer for Arjun in Mahabharat
17th-century illustration Painting
https://t.co/XKR71TdAqv via @britannica

Indra, chief of gods and the guardian of the east, on his elephant, Airavata
holds Vajra
painting from Trichinopoly, ca. 1825 @V_and_A
inscription in Telugu reads Indra going to fight Kumbhkaran?
can you read?
Varitrahana is as god Bahram in the Avesta? is it?

आन मिलो आन मिलो श्याम साँवरे
ब्रज मे राधा रानी खोइ खोइ फिरे
Two separate locale one theme? Two versions.
Paintings
1. Ragini Gauri by Nainsukh 1770
2. 1790
@SDMA
Riyaz रियाज is never ending path of devotion bhakti, with ultimate goal of attaining perfection, meeting d lord 🙏

Who is she?
Beauty
Painting by Raja Ravi Varma

Beautiful painting by
Chen Renqian (Chen Zenchien, b.1984)

Fruits on Plantain Tree.
Plantain flowers too made dish in Bengal, in UP too but not much popular.

@Sothebys lot511

padmini
Gwalior 10th century sculpture
Bhopal Museum
Why padmini? As she holds lotus, but could be shalbhanjika too?
Apsara Madanika Sundari Yakshi?