EditorialRavana is astonished at the speed, strength and prowess of Bali and asks for his hand in friendship. They are shown seated together with the titans and monkeys, chewing paan or betelnut. Ramayana. Udaipur, 1653. Source: Add. 15297(2), f.39. Language: S...
EditorialAn Indian woman at a gala seated on a rich carpet with containers of betelnut and perfume, attended by an ayah or servants with punya (fan), pawn and snake hookah pipe. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario...
EditorialRavana is astonished at the speed, strength and prowess of Bali and asks for his hand in friendship. They are shown seated together with the titans and monkeys, chewing paan or betelnut. Ramayana. Udaipur, 1653. Source: Add. 15297(2), f.39. Language: S...
EditorialAn Indian woman at a gala seated on a rich carpet with containers of betelnut and perfume, attended by an ayah or servants with punya (fan), pawn and snake hookah pipe. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario...
EditorialBetelnut palm, Areca catechu. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialBetelnut palm, goovaka or pinang, Areca catechu. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.