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Ghiyas Shah watching preparations for sherbert,
few other illustrations from British Library's blog

mince #coconut, soak in sweetened water
Niʻmatnāmah-i Nāṣirshāhī (Nasir Shah's Book of Delights) written for Sultan Ghiyas al-Din Khilji (r.1469-1500)
@britishlibrary

Who said beauty lies in eyes of beholder?

author called Margaret Wolfe Hungerford included phrase in her book 'Molly Bawn'(1878)

It's another way of saying that beauty is subjective
sometimes cameramen too sensitize what they see?
a thin line between Sundarta Saumyata & ??

Digambara Yakshi Kushmandini, c. 900 Karnataka, 875-925 Schist sculpture
The Norton Simon Foundation

Kushmanda is one of 9 Devi we worship during Navratri

Padmapani too? holding flower-lotus?
@NortonSimon
our treasure is found mostly abroad

https://t.co/mg9Kn5oJP0

@DalrympleWill @hemantsarin @V_and_A Hookah Burdar or Huqqa Bearer
2nd is some seth?

coloured etching Solvyns Franz Balthazar Private Collection
The Stapleton Collection
The Bridgeman Art Library
at https://t.co/MMx9dQN6v3
https://t.co/xEg4d3wQNM

@DalrympleWill @hemantsarin @V_and_A man smoking #hookah, or huqqa? both can i write?

Watercolour On Paper, c.1850 painting
not much detail is given at Fine Art America
seems hookah is not attached with social status?

https://t.co/S1RQb5QK4Y

@hemantsarin @IndiaArtHistory @DalrympleWill Dance Nautch- as it was called?
colonial men were amused by this art of dance & music of India

girls seems so young?
even by 13 they are stage masters?

Dancing girls & musicians from Madras, a drawing by Christopher Green, c.1800 @britishlibrary

@unibirmingham @Sothebys @LACMA UmaPati & Devi Uma
from these directions we can see how elaborately everything is carved, sculpture is multi dimensional? not just 3D?
Lion, vahan of mother parvati is here
& that gana-with bones is visible
thnx to @LACMA

@unibirmingham @Sothebys Uma Maheshwar
Shiv parvati on Nandi?
Umapati
Uttar Pradesh, Deogarh region, circa 750-800, Sculpture
at @LACMA
who is at forefront?
am i seeing bones? as most of gana are there as his bhakt?-devotees?
rich BharatKosh we had

in such weather & swamps only the mighty Elephant could have helped human in travelling or crossing?
Donald Horne Macfarlane (Scottish, 1830-1904)
Elephants bathing
1862
Albumen silver print
© The David Collection

Charkha? Takli-Katli?
spinning Yarn making was a profession required skills, often passed on generation to generation, in clan. company painting documented such jobs
here to highlight women participation in Economy?
Painting from Lucknow, ca:1815-20 @V_and_A