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evening snacks!🙏
Devi offering Mahadev to eat in plate at Kailash
Pahari Painting, Guler, circa 1790 @Sothebys lot830
on Mahashivratri everyone keeps fast & break after performing puja, even few keep nirjala vrat too!
couple in embrace
painting from Ragmala series, Rajasthan, 1772
@britishmuseum name of ragini?
whole of canvas is touched by brush-hurriedly?
https://t.co/7gNINTKLdd
titled: Parvati & Shiv ji share intoxicating Dhatura fruit?
it can't be true?
Parvati must have looked in amazement?
Pahari Painting, Guler, circa 1780's
lot13 @Sothebys
property from Lanier collection
गोवर्धनधारी Govardhandahri
painting from Bhagwat Puran
Possibly made in Surat/Kathiawar, c.1800 @philamuseum
A Pichvai? Pichwai? पिछवाई
couple in embrace
Painting from Ragmala series
but lyrics? verses not shown in site
together with other paintings they depict Bairadi Raga & 'Malavi Raga'
from Rajasthan, 1772 @britishmuseum
beautifull architecture, colours- Rangilo Rajasthan?
https://t.co/74xMO7WwF0
two avatar of Lord Vishnu, 1st & 5th
paintings from 1780-1800s?
depicting four-armed Matsya & Conch Demon fighting, vedas appear to thank & a city in background
Vamana, the dwarf avatar with King Mahabali
from Delhi style of painting says @ChristiesInc
Divya Saumya Roop Mahadev Shiv🙏
seated in Padmasan पद्मासन
he is yogi- yogeshwar
Painting 1890 from Jaipur
@V_and_A collection
doing yogasan regularly removes many ailments
https://t.co/XsjrfhN5us
#Jain Purushkara Yantra, Rajasthan/Gujarat, 18th Century A Cosmic figure
Jambudvipa at center, 7 levels of hell in area of legs, heavens in upper body with 8 Jinas painted in face, outer space decorated with elephants, conches & dancing goddesses @ChristiesInc
Preparation of Sati
now abolished
Sketch by Robert Melville Grindlay
reminded of Fanny Parkes wrote about Sati at Kanpur
begum thugs compiled by @DalrympleWill
cites a manuscript given by Baroda Gaikwad that contained description of rituals
read here👇
https://t.co/eIq1VCOoKn
Watercolour drawing of a ruined temple north of Mamallapuram, by John Gantz, c. 1825. From a sketch by Mr J. Braddock
i call it Mahabalipuram
@britishlibrary
which temple it is? in neighbourhood of Shore temple?
https://t.co/ePL9rh05F6