Babhruvahana & Mongoose fight Serpent Armies
Folio from Mahabharata
Paithan Chitrakatha, i am loving to use chitrakatha instead of painting
Folk Art/painting by folk artists who kept our traditions/heritage alive for centuries & remained unknown

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Babhruvahana Surrenders d Sacrificial Horse Syamakarna to His Father Arjuna, Folio from Mahabharata, 1850 painting
Paithan Chitrakatha, Maharashtra, a art form of pictorial story telling, as is miniature painting why to tag it as FOLK?
such treasures of OUGHT tob in India

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💣 Bhishma 🏹
One of the greatest Mahabharata warriors and the eighth son of the Kuru King Shantanu and the river goddess Ganga.

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Wajang puppets. Wajang is an ancient form of puppetry, originating from Java, Indonesia. Shadow-puppets perform in ancient epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata.

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These designs are based on/inspired by the Vedic Period of India’s history, as well as a bit of the Mauryan era. Outside of research, some of my visual inspo came from those nostalgic Chandamama illustrations, as my dad used to collect them, as well as the Mahabharata serials!

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Mighty interesting this french Mahabharata comic by Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean-Marie Michaud is. Quite like the art. familiar but not. Hope this gets translated into english one of these days...

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Few pages from French Mahabharata Comic. How I wish we have some cool retellings of these epics

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[OC Mahabharata]

K: You want me to tell you a bedtime story huh?
D:Yes! many many story!
K: Understood.
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Karna by me
(Chibi!)Duryodhana by

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Some believe that the eagle-snake symbol on the Mexican flag is linked to the eagle & serpent legend from Puranas (Garuda eats snakes in Mahabharat); & symbolizes the possible spread of Hindu ideas in Americas during ancient times 🙏

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(1/2) To my fellow Fate nerds, as I'm a huge fan of ancient mythology and legends and also Karna and Arjuna,
I wanted to look up more about their origin which is the epic/story ''Mahabharata'', basically the better Game of Thrones of ancient India + demigods & the supernatural!

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This card always makes me think of Bhishma laying on the bed of arrows in the Mahabharata and how he used that time before dying to lecture everyone about the importance of dharma.

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Adding to today for 👉🏽 this painting by Nandalal Bose that shows Arjuna as ‘Brihannala’ - the community finds an imp space in an ancient text like but we’re still not ready to talk gender-neutral washrooms.

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All in all 700+ original stories were published. Special issues like Ram Charit Manas and Mahabharat in two volumes. Then some on the lines of Commando, local superheroes like Aditya and Dara and a few reprints. My collection is on an Excel Sheet toh EVM mein gadbadi nahin hai

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Aśvins, or Ashwini Kumaras are twin vedic gods of medicine. In the epic Mahabharata, King Pandu's wife Madri is granted a son by each Ashvin and bears the twins Nakula and Sahadev.
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Aśvins- Divine Physicians of the gods

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The final scene of

As the curtain falls on this magnificent epic of our proud nation, we, the people stuck at home due to the pandemic, feel the void in our hearts. But Vasudev Krishna will always be there with us.

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