This Stone sculpture dated around 5th century belongs to uttar pradesh (India) called as Krishna Killing the Horse Demon Keshi, is displayed at the metmuseum.
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This Thread for all Ear Ornament lovers
#TamilNadu
ear ornaments are generally of 22-karat gold. Goldsmiths there have developed an elaborate ear-ornament tradition, which often necessitates piercing the ear at several locations and distending the hole mode in the earlobe
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Walur Villge, Selu Taluka in Parbhani District of Maharashtra (India) where youths of this village have started a massive cleanliness drive for Preservation and Conservation of this Stepwell. They surely deserve applause for this work currently being carried out.
In Turkey, Indira Gandhi Is Slang for Cheating and Petty Theft
In Recep Ivedik (turkish comedy movie), Gokbakar uses the term with the manager of a hotel, telling him “Indiregandi yapacan değil mi çakal”—don’t try to Indira Gandhi me, you jackal—a phrase which attained...
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TRIP TO BHAJA CAVE
THREAD
Bhaja Caves are a group of 22 rock-cut caves dating the 2nd century B.C.E. located near Lonavala, Maharashtra. The caves are 400ft above the village, on an important ancient trade route running from the Arabian Sea eastward into the Deccan Plateau.
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STORY OF MEENAKSHI 💙🐟 Thread
-According to a legend, Meenakshi emerged out of a ‘Yajna’ (sacred fire) as a three-year-old girl. The ‘Yajna’ was performed by a king named Malayadwaja Pandya along with his wife Kanchanamalai. Since the royal couple had no child,
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Faith collides with nature.
Shivalinga in Somewhere deep inside a jungle in Bali. This is Beji Griya Waterfall
U will hear simply the sound of water at first, but as u walk further down,u will witness this wonderful view.
Image: Bhagwan Shiva Mahadev
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This intricate"SadaaShiva Murthy"is one of the 64 forms of Lord Shiva, has 25 heads, 75 eyes, and 50 hands. 25 heads depict 25 Maheshwara Murtis as per Puranas and Agamas. This form of Shiva can be seen predominantly in South Indian Temple Sculpture, Sunchindram, TN.
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In the year 1992, an animated film based on Ramayana was released through satellite cinema. It was made to commemorate the 40th anniversary of India-Japan diplomatic relations. It was the idea of Japanese film director Yugo Sako,who was deeply
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@IndiaArtHistory
Just watched this brilliant movie
#SooraraiPottru
(
#Tamil
) (IMDb rating 9.1/10)
What a stroy ❤️❤️❤️ ... It's a story of Indian's small dream ✈️
#bollywood
still in dark age of copying and pasting
P.s - goosebumps when u see the glimpse of former president
#apjabdulkalam
Detail from “A painting of Radha at her toilette”, Guler, c.1820. Christie’s: “This scene is known from the Sat Sai, a work by the 17th century poet Bihari emphasizing the love between Krishna and Radha.
DEATH OF AKBAR - Akbar died of an illness that followed dysentery in 1605.
The greatest of the Great Moguls (or Mughals) died of dysentery ten days after his 63rd birthday in his capital of Agra. Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar, a ruler since his teens, had united two-thirds of
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-Jali at Sidi Saiyyed Mosque, built in 1572-73 AD, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Jali not only added artistic flair to the magnificent architectural wonders of this golden era of Indo-Islamic architecture. They also served practical purposes, such as allowing for the circulation of air
Trident with Shiva as Half-Woman (Ardhanarishvara)
ca. 1050, Chola dynasty, South India. Cleveland Museum of Art.
This Shiva sculpture almost a thousand years old can easily be mistaken for the Sikh Khanda emblem.
'Odissi' was the only Indian classical dance form to be featured in Michael Jackson's 1991Hit single "BlackorWhite"
dancer is Yamuna Sangarasivam (Srilanka)
video was and continues to be a call to celebrate multiple cultures,while confronting and addressing the history of racism
The Indian concept of womanhood is not about transient youth and beauty. It is about power and energy which sustains the world. This feminine power is the instrumental and creative force for anything to exist and function.
🎨by
#RajaRaviVarma
#RaviVarmaPress
#indianmythology
THEN NOW
-Colossal bull, from Lepakshi,
Andhra Pradesh, 16th century A.D.
The Nandhi is quiet grand at 15 x 27 feet and made of a single monolithic granite. Makes one wonder how grand this place would have been, during its glory
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@monidipadey
The Mogul Emperor Babur receives the envoys Uzbeg and Rauput in the garden at Agra on18th December1528, the emperor sits on a throne under a canopy;the fortifications of Agra are in the background, illustration to the Wariat-i-Barbari by Ram Das, c.1590 by Indian School (16th C)
Story Brihadisvara Temple
The Brihadisvara Temple was built under Raja Raja Chola, a Chola emperor ruling over ancient Tamil Nadu, parts of what is now Sri Lanka, and much of what was Malaya from 985 to 1014 AD.
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Gyan Vapi well
#Gyanvapi
, the original holy well between the temple and mosque, the
#Mosque
is named after a well, the Gyan Vapi ("the well of knowledge"),which is located within the mosque precincts.The legends mentioned by the Hindu priests state that the lingam of the
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Hindus brought into Trinidad as laborers for plantations 1845 -1917,suffered discriminatory laws that did not allow cremation, and other rites of passage such as the traditional marriage, because the colonial officials considered these as pagan and uncivilized barbaric practices.
A playful Ganesha enjoying an oil massage by his mother Parvati; and equally enjoying laddus.
It is truly auspicious to see the lord so lively and motherhood of Maa Parvati. The exquisite piece of art is done by Shri Mahaveer Swami from Bikaner, Rajasthan,India.
@talesofBharat
Bharhut sculpture, early Indian sculpture of the Shunga period (mid-2nd century BCE) that decorated the great stupa, or relic mound, of Bharhut, in Madhya Pradesh state, discovered by Major General Alexander Cunningham in 1873.
🌌 showing Excavation Site In Bharhut, Satna
Shiva Ardhanarisvara, c. 1700-1750
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
-In this hypnotic image, the Hindu god Shiva and his wife Parvati share one body, in the form known as Ardhanarisvara, ‘lord whose half is woman.’
Kandāriyā Mahādeva Mandir - meaning "the Great God of the Cave"
Completed circa 1030
-Largest and most ornate Hindu temple in the medieval temple group found at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh, India.
- one of the best examples of temples preserved from the medieval period in India.
This is a painting of Srinagar (C.1872 CE).
#KashmiriPandits
performing Sūrya Namaskāra on the banks of Jhelum. This historical painting shows a snapshot of life around downtown Srinagar, Kashmir during period of Raja Ranbir Singh. He ruled J&K from 1856 till his death in 1885.
The
#Ramayana
of Bir Singh Deo Bundela, c.1604. This is the earliest surviving illustrated
#manuscript
of the Ramayana with a
#Sanskrit
text (
#Akbar
commissioned a lavishly illustrated Persian Ramayana some two decades earlier).
This was made at Orchha for a Hindu nobelman
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The largest stone
#Shivling
in South East Asia
This 2.26 m Linga-Yoni was discovered at the Cát Tiên archaeological site, 150 kms from Ho Chi Minh City,
#Vietnam
.
accidentally discovered in 1985,which have revealed the existence of a
#Hindu
civilization between 4-9th cent.
Three bejewelled royal women from the Court of Mysore in Southern India was painted by Thomas Hickey in circa, 1805. Shown in white sari on right is Rami Lakshmi Ammani, queen of the Wadiyar ruler of Mysore and adoptive grandmother of Krishnaraja Wadiyar III.
Source: Sotheby’s
Gajendra Moksha-The Liberation of Gajendra is a Puranic legend from the 8th Skandha of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, a sacred book in Hinduism. It is one of the famous exploits of the god Vishnu. In this episode, Vishnu came down to earth to protect Gajendra, the elephant, from
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#Photographs
that will transport you to Pre-Independent India. here r Some of the most astonishing photographs from India which shows.Various religion, caste,tribe,the merchants,traders, women of all ages, the farmers, rich and the poor all in masses.
1.mother & child
#photo
"If you want to understand village life of India Read the book by Premchand ji"
-This Photograph showing India's most Favourite Author Munshi Premchand ji with his wife in which he has worn torn shoes.
Which novel you liked the most written by him ?
#munshipremchandji
#author
This ceiling medallion shows matsya chakra,a fish nd Lotus motif.negative space between the fishe's tails cleverly forms a 16 petalled is Akshay svastika,a continuous motif,also known as Nandaivarta
- Badami cave 2, western chalukya dy. 575-585
#Hindus
From the
@IndianMuseumKol
-This painting presents Siva, the archer. Lord Siva is riding on a bull, shooting with arrow, against the red background.
-Siva, the Archer
Indian Museum, Kolkata
Kangra, Pahari
19th century AD
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@monidipadey
Another unique chromolithograph based on an 'original' painting by Raja Ravi Varma. This one is titled 'Sita Swayamvara' and shows the scene of Lord Rama breaking the sacred bow to win the hand of Sita in marriage.
According to the DNS NETWORK This 4.5-feet statue of Channakeshavaswami, dated back to the 12th century, was discovered while extracting sand at Hemavathy river, at Hale Beluru village in Karnataka,India
#IncredibleIndia
#beluru
#sculpture
#beauty
#discover
#DiwaliInPunjab
An 1897 Punjabi translation of Tulsi Das’ ‘Ramayana’ written by Bhai Sant Singh Giani,edited by Munshi Nawal Kishore Wakya and printed by Maulvi Mahmood Ahmad Sahib Agent at Lahore.Diwali is celebrated to mark the occasion of the return of God, Ram, to his kingdom
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
a demon hid the earth at the bottom of the primordial ocean. The god took the form of a boar (varaha) and rescued her. Even with his legs missing, this sculpture conveys the powerful lunge of his body as he raises the earth to safety. Personified as the goddess Bhu.
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Leela Kamal: a long stemmed lotus that is often shown in the hand of a lady waiting to meet her lover. You can find references to it in the works of the Sanskrit poet Kalidasa to modern day Hindi poets such as Dinkar.
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The
#Kandariya
#Mahadeva
Temple is the largest and most ornate Hindu temple in the medieval temple group found at
#Khajuraho
in Madhya Pradesh. It is considered one of the best examples of temples preserved from the medieval period in India.
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Saraswati: The Vedic Goddess of Knowledge and Arts
Here is a beautiful Lithograph showcasing Saraswati by Artist Raja Ravi Varma
c.1894
Image: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
#Diwali2022
The city of Samarkand has been at the crossroads of world cultures for over two and a half millennia and is one of the most important sites on the Silk Routes traversing Central Asia. Timur chose Samarkand to be the capital of his vast empire, and during his relentless
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80 Tons of Carved Granite must have been transported unmachined at a height of about 216 feet and an inclination of almost zero degrees!!
This
#temple
weighs 130,000 tons and survived 6 major earthquakes.
#Brihadeshwara
Temple, Tamil Nadu, India
Narasimha, the man-lion avatar of Vishnu
7th–8th century
Afghanistan or northern Pakistan
In the collection of MET
-A crescent moon and gemstone medallion adorn his diadem, a motif also seen in seventh-century Kashmir sculpture and attributed to Sasanian contact from Iran.
There is enough evidence in epics like the Ramayana, Mahabharata, and even the temples of Khajuraho to prove that homosexuality was legal and practised in ancient India. Its rejection by the Holy scriptures is a completely different matter.
Telling stories is an art not many artists have managed to master. Raja Ravi Varma was a master story teller and painted several scenes from the Puranas and epics.
His fifth generation descendent Jay Varma, also a Founder-member and Independent Advisor
Durga was created for the slaying of the buffalo demon Mahisasura by Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and the lesser gods, who were otherwise powerless to overcome him.Embodying their collective energy she is both derivative from the male divinities & the true source of their inner power.
Shiva as Gangadhara
This painting is attributed to the outstanding artist Manohar c. 1600 who had a long and glittering career at the Mughal court under Akbar and Jahangir. Private collection USA.
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@sanjukta
Kirtimukha.
Once, Shiva became very angry with the disrespectful behaviour of a Yaksha,and created an ogre to eat him alive,yaksha knowning Shiva's intention begged for his forgiveness,and as Shiva's temper falls he lets the Yaksha go.But the orge was very hungry to eat and
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We are not used to seeing the mighty
#Kali
as a young bride.This Early Bengal oil painting is full of such unusual iconography- the lotus rising from the navel of Shiva, the gods who form the foundation of the marital bed.
-Anonymous (Early Bengal)
Untitled(Kali as Shodashi)
The 30 cave temples of Ajanta are situated in a horse-shoe valley of the Waghora river in West India and consist of prayer halls and monasteries, built for the Buddhist community who lived there.
One of the most appealing Hindu deities, here finest bronze images of Hanuman to have survived from the Chola kingdom of south India, this work embodies his noble, virtuous character with great sensitivity.
Hanuman Conversing, Chola period,11th century, India, Copper alloy
-MET
Nandalal Bose was a pupil of Abanindranath Tagore and was widely known for his “Indian style” paintings.His art style was deeply influenced by the Tagore family and murals of Ajanta.His paintings were mostly of village life, mythological characters and portraits.
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Posthumous Portrait of a Queen as Parvati
-She stands on Shiva's vehicle, the bull Nandi, and is flanked by her 2children. Standing in an unusual yogic pose is Ganesha,who controls obstacles; seated is Karttikeya,the god of war.
14th century,Java,Andesite
Collection:
@metmuseum
Do u know ?
“Ranji trophy” is named after Raja Ranjitsinhji of Nawabnagar in Gujarat. (1907-1933)
Ranji has widely been regarded as one of the greatest
#batsmen
of all time. He is particularly associated with one shot, the leg glance, which he invented or popularised.
#cricket
Ardhanareeshvara is a combination of three words “Ardha,” “Nari,” and “Ishwara” means “half,” “woman,” and “lord,”
-Ganesha with Shiva/Parvati.
Bikaner, Bikaner District, Rajasthan, India. Date: ca 1700-1730 CE
Present Location: Varanasi, Bharat Kala Bhavan Museum.
The wooden sculpture of The Hindu Goddess Kali is bountifully adorned with ornate jewelry replicating the spectacular gold jewelry that was the fashion of the day.
Note in particular the dramatic earrings: one depicts the head of a lion
17th century, India, Kerala.
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There was silence inside.
Ellora Caves, India
It is one of the largest rock-cut Hindu temple cave complexes in the world, with artwork dating from the period 600–1000 CE.
Cave 16 features the largest single monolithic rock excavation in the world
Night Scene of Shiva Puja
c.1760-70
Lucknow, Mughal
Artist: Muhammad Rizavi Hindi
This late eighteenth century Mughal painting from Lucknow depicts a woman indulged in 'Shiva-puja'(worship of Shivalinga). The scene most probably represent the occasion of
#shivratri
#art
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This painting titled Narasimha (1899) is one of the rarely seen works by Ravi Varma. The painting is borrowed from the Puranic tales that Ravi Varma grew up listening to and depicts the Narasimha avatar from the Dasavatar.
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