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Dominos Pizza & Homemade Apple Pie for Dinner tonight!
An unusual c1740 AD #Pahari painting from #Chamba #HimachalPradesh now at Rob Dean Art (formerly collection of Raja Bhawani Shah of #TehriGarhwal
'A Servant with Goitre (Iron deficiency)'.
@ranjona @DalrympleWill @dpanikkar
After taking a bath, that girl with the lotus eyes made a peephole while tying back her hair. She kept glancing shyly at her lover Krishna through her fingers and her hair.
-Krishna Observes Radha’s toilette,page from the Tehri-Garhwal Satsai of Bihari attributed to Fattu, c.1785
Goddess Ambika preparing the eight mother goddesses (Aṣṭamātṛkā-s) for battle against the demon Raktabija;
Kangra or Garhwal, circa 1830
dm for prints! size is 17” by 12”
ships to India, US, EU
She is Karnavati, ruler of Garhwal.
Shah Jahan's Mughal army attacked Garhwal in 1640. Karnavati defeated them.
Cut noses of surviving Mughal soldiers incl of Mughal gen Najabat Khan.
So, called Nak-Kati-Rani.
Described in #SaffronSwords-https://t.co/WnGAi1G5Ub
Jai Bharat!
'Krishna & Rukmini'
Date: ca. 1780
#Garhwal School #Uttarakhand India
Rukmini wrote a love letter to Krishna & begged him to steal her away & take her as his wife. On the morning of her wedding to the evil Shishupala, Krishna kidnaps her in front of her family & retinue!
@iamrana
Hindu Chandra Singh Garhwali of Garhwal Rifles Refused to Fire On Muslim Pashtuns of Khudai Kidhmatgars In Qissa Khawani Bazaar In Peshawar
Today Pakistan Army Opened Fire On Innocent Muslim Pashtuns #StateAttackedPTM
The Fish Incarnation:
Matsya Avatara and the Saptarishis
Garhwal, 1800
Now in the V&A