Erotic scene, India, Deccan, Hyderabad, gouache on paper, circa 1760

    

                               

Navagunjara, a Universal Form of Krishna, India Rajasthan ...Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper c.1835

Kalighat school... India 1900

That all may be one.., Indian gouache..part 2

part 1

Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil...India... 10th–11th century

This is a fragment of a full-length sculpture portraying the ferocious Hindu goddess Kali in the form of Chamunda, an epithet derived from her act of decapitating the demons Chanda and Munda. Chamunda embodies bareness and decay. Her hair is piled up into a chignon decorated with a tiara of skulls and a crescent moon. She scowls, baring her teeth, and enormous eyeballs protrude menacingly from sunken sockets in her skeletal face. As a necklace, she wears a snake whose coils echo the rings of decaying flesh that sag beneath her collarbone. Just above her navel on her emaciated torso is a scorpion, a symbol of sickness and death. She presumably once held lethal objects in the hands of her twelve missing arms.

Bhaskar Lahiri... Paintings and prints...

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The ancient civilizations of the entire world , especially that of
India, with their spectacular manifestations , create an enchantment
In me. Side by side age-old Indian philosophy , history,religion,
folk-culture, literature,folk-art,etc.stir the very core of my mind.
In every nook and corner of my home state ,West Bengal,folk climes
have its presence felt.Hence my utmost sincerity is to house those
dew and dust strewn jewels into my compositions

Bhaskar Lahiri

Unknown source... Indian gouache...

Indian gouache...Angel on a composite horse

Tantric figures...

Indian... Gouache on paper... c 1930 ...part 1