Showing posts with label Asit Kumar Haldar. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Myths of Hindus and Buddhists...illustrations... 1913



Book illustration from ''Myths of Hindus and Buddhists'' by Ananda K Coomearaswamy and Sister Nivedita, 1913


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Garuda by Nandalal Bose


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Dhruva by Asit Kumar Haldar
Dhruva, a young devotee of Vishnu, was blessed with eternal existence and glory as the Pole Star.


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Pururavas by Khitindra Nath Mazumdar
Pururavas was the first king of the Aila dynasty and a mythological entity associated with the sun and the dawn. 


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The asceticism of Uma by Nandalal Bose



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Kaliya Damana by Khitindra Nath Mazumdar

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