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Editorial Maharana Pratap's Descendant Vishvaraj Singh And Bhawani Singh Kalvi Join BJP Ahead Of Rajasthan Assembly Elections, New Delhi, Delhi, India - 17 Oct 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial Rajasthan In Pictures, Jodhpur, India - 26 Jul 2023
Editorial India: Maharajas Express
Editorial King Sagara's sons grow up. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Prince Asamanjasa, King Sagara's eldest son, grew up to be evil. He would drown children in the Saraya river and derive pleasure from it, depicted on the right. Image taken from Ramayana...
Editorial Rāva?a now prepares himself for a final great effort. According to Rajput traditions, having taken a bath within his qanāts, he emerges clad in golden armour, strewn with flowers and mounts his battle chariot drawn by eight white horses and covered...
Editorial Bharata, ?atrughna and their uncle, along with retainers and two led riding horses, with loaded elephants beyond the horizon line, arrive at the palace of the king of Kekaya, Bharata’s maternal grandfather, who awaits them looking out of an upper wi...
Editorial Rama tours his kingdom. Rama is seen summoning the Pushpaka chariot on the left and disembarking the chariot on the right. Rama discovers a shudra practising penance and kills him by cutting off his head. The gods approve and shower him with flowers. R...
Editorial King Sagara performs a sacrifice. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. King Sagara performs the asvamedha sacrifice. A horse is let loose and his sons follow the horse. Prince Anshuman is appointed protector of the horse. Vasava, disguised as a demon, ...
Editorial Sagara's sons search for the horse. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. King Sagara's sons dig the earth, once again searching for the horse. They come across four elephants all of whom support each other on their shoulders. Image taken from Ramayana...
Editorial A Brahmin's son dies and the Brahmin is shown approaching Rama's court to inquire as to the cause of his son's death. Rama is blamed and is seen asking advice from the sages. Lakshmana is seen first with joined hands before Rama, then communicating Ram...
Editorial Ravana is shown on his horse surrounded by attendants and accompanied by huntsmen, on the right. The sage Maya, his daughter and other children are seated on a mat in front of their hut. Maya is shown in conversation with Ravana. Ravana is then depicte...
Editorial Sita visits the hermitages. Lakshmana takes Sita in the chariot to visit the hermitages as she had requested. They rest in a hermitage on the banks of the river Gaumati. Ramayana. Udaipur, 1653. Source: Add. 15297(2), f.73. Language: Sanskrit.
Editorial The procession returns to Ayodhyā, along the bottom of the painting, the sorrowful and deserted city being the haunt of cats and owls. Bharata and ?atrughna take their leave of the queens and tell Vasi??ha that they will retire to Nandigrāma and...
Editorial On the right in the palace, the princes ask the king for teachers of religion, arts and sciences, while above two ladies at a carpeted jharokhā window look down on them on the left as they practise horsemanship on the exercise ground. One man is about...
Editorial On the left, Dhanada (Vaisravana), Lord of Wealth, in his palace on Mount Kailasa, asks Manibhadra, the prince of the Yakshas, to fight the demons. Manibhadra is shown as a giant with joined hands. The right section depicts the battle between Ravana an...
Editorial The story of the Dandaka desert. Rama is told the story of how the entire region was cursed with a dust storm that would render Danda, his family and kingdom and all life lifeless within seven days. Danda was cursed for ravishing Aruja, shown in the ce...
Editorial The search for the horse. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. The sixty thousand sons of Sagara scoured the earth and dug up all the ground with implements and nails in their search for the missing sacrificial horse. Image taken from Ramayana, Bala K...
Editorial The abandonment of Sita. Sita and Lakshmana are shown crossing the river Ganges. Lakshmana, with hands crossed, begs Sita's forgiveness for leaving her behind when she faints. Ramayana. Udaipur, 1653. Source: Add. 15297(2), f.74. Language: Sanskrit.
Editorial Rāva?a takes centre stage before his troops, as the final battle commences. Rāma and Rāva?a exchange blow for blow, shooting their most fearsome weapons at each other, and although some strike home, most are countered by the other’s shafts. La...
Editorial The two chariots charge at one another, arrows flying. Rāva?a's horses have developed leonine heads, perhaps a reference to the sinister portents which again surround Rāva?a, while his serpent standard is drooping. Vibhī?a?a has his eyes fix...
Editorial Royal visitors return to the palace. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Dasaratha, Vasishta, Rishyasringa, his wife and the queens return to the palace after the ceremony to obtain sons. Image taken from Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Originally published/p...
Editorial King Romapada's court. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. King Dasaratha asks for permission for Rishyasringa and Shanta to accompany him back to Ayodhya. They are shown leaving in a chariot for Ayodhya. Image taken from Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Origi...
Editorial Dasaratha & Rishyasringa. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Dasaratha and Rishyasringa set out on their journey, the sage in a chariot, the King on horseback, and Santa and the queens in a purdah ox-cart. Image taken from Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Ori...
Editorial The two chariots of Rama and Ravana charge at each other. On the right, the horses leading Ravana's chariot have turned into white lions but his serpent standard is drooping. Bibhishana has his eyes fixed firmly on Rama's face and the solar standard ab...
Editorial The temple of Juggernauth, Oodeypore. A view of the temple dedicated to Jagannatha ('Lord of the World') in Udaipur. Also called the Jagdish temple, it was built by Maharana Jagat Singh in 1651. India, ancient and modern : a series of illustrations of ...
Editorial In a series of three compartments on the right, Rāma is seen conversing with his brothers, Vibhī?a?a and a sage (presumably Vasi??ha but this is premature as they would have to have reached Ayodhyā first), with the monkeys still in human gui...
Editorial Rama issues his last commands and embraces Bharata on the right of the folio. His subjects look downcast and ask to accompany him wherever he goes. Ramayana. Udaipur, 1653. Source: Add. 15297(2), f.111. Language: Sanskrit.
Editorial The sons search for the horse. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. King Sagara commands his sixty thousand sons to find the sacrificial horse using any means. Image taken from Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Originally published/produced in Udaipur, 1712. . S...
Editorial Shatrughana departs Ayodhya to return to his kingdom. He is shown leaving the city accompanied by his attendants. Ramayana. Udaipur, 1653. Source: Add. 15297(2), f.90. Language: Sanskrit.
Editorial Rama tells the story of Ila. Kardama was hunting in the same forest where Siva was entertaining Parvati by transferring all things male into female. Kaidama was also transformed and when he approached Siva he said he would grant him anything but the tr...
Editorial Dasaratha sets out for Mithila. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Accompanied by his ministers and sages and laden with jewels and riches, Dasaratha sets out for Mithila the very next day. Image taken from Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Originally publishe...
Editorial The sacrificed horse is prepared. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. This shows rituals being performed in accordance with the asvamedha sacrifice. The limbs of the horse are being severed and cleansed in the sacred waters of the river Sarayu by Rish...
Editorial The horses, elephants and soldiers also enjoy Bharadvāja’s hospitality. The horses, hobbled and tethered, eat out of great golden dishes; likewise the elephants, presented here with sugar cane. The elephants bathe in a lotus lake into which rivers o...
Editorial The ascetics visit Rama and request help against Lavana, son of Madhu, who had acquired a formidable weapon as a boon from Siva. Madhu used the weapon wisely but his son Lavana used the weapon indiscriminately and harassed the ascetics living in the fo...
Editorial Rāma on his throne, with his brothers behind holding a parasol and chowries, bids farewell to all his helpers, who are still in human form. Vibhī?a?a sets off in his chariot, and an elephant and a horse await others. With Rāma’s coronation beg...
Editorial Dhanada (Vaisravana) is depicted at his palace giving the yakshas orders to fight. Below, the yakshas are shown emerging from their caves in the mountain, ready to fight. The demon army led by Ravana is shown on the right in battle with the yakshas. Ra...
Editorial Anshuman looks for the horse. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. King Sagara, apprehensive of his son's welfare, sends Prince Anshuman to seek his uncles and find the horse. Image taken from Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Originally published/produced in Ud...
Editorial Sukesha's sons decide to proceed into battle against the Gods. They are shown conferring with each other in the palace in Lanka in the right section of the painting. The left section depicts them mounted on their battle steeds of horses, fish, snakes, ...
Editorial Brahma is asked for help. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. In the process of digging the earth, many snakes and rakshasas are slain or injured. The Devas, Gandharvas, Asuras and Nagas are terrorised by this afflication and approach Brahma for help....
Editorial Rama questions his ministers. Rama requests his courtiers to visit the towns and villages to acquaint themselves with the rumours about Sita and himself. The courtiers are seen departing from the palace on horseback and on elephants. Ramayana. Udaipur,...
Editorial Horse sacrifice. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Queen Kaushayla performs the rite of sacrificing the horse. She then spends the night next to the body of the horse as is the custom. Image taken from Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Originally published/pr...
Editorial Lak?ma?a and Vibhī?a?a then attack Rāva?a. Lak?ma?a cuts off the head of his charioteer with his arrow, while Vibhī?a?a, with his club, kills Rāva?a’s horses. Rāva?a looses a great spear at Vibhī?a?a, which Lak?ma?...
Editorial Anshuman finds the horse and the ashes of his sixty thousand uncles. In great distress, he looks for water with which to sprinkle the ashes. His maternal uncle Garuda advises him to return with the horse in order to complete the sacrifice. He also says...
Editorial Ravana wounds Laksmana.
Editorial Scene from the Ramayana.
Editorial Ravana fights Rama and Laksmana.
Editorial India: A maharaja riding an elephant, mural on a wall in Udaipur, Rajasthan
Editorial Rishyasringa returns home. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Dasaratha and his queens decide to accompany Rishyasringa and his wife on their journey back home. They are shown in various rooms of the palace preparing for their journey. Image taken f...
Editorial Rajasthan CM Gehlot at mass marriage ceremony in Jaipur, Udaipur, India - 07 Jul 2022
Editorial Vishwa Hindu Parishad Organises 'Sankalp March' In Delhi Against 'Attacks On Hindus', New Delhi, India - 09 Jul 2022
Editorial Sachin Pilot meets Kanhaiya Lal's family in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India - 08 Jul 2022
Editorial Youth Congress Put Posters Alleging BJP Connection To Udaipur Killer And Arrested LeT Commander, New Delhi, DLI, India - 05 Jul 2022
Editorial Udaipur Killing Case: Accused Produced In Court, Jaipur, India - 05 Jul 2022
Editorial 'Hanuman Chalisa' Recital In Jaipur, India - 03 Jul 2022
Editorial Udaipur Killing Case Accused Produced At Court Jaipur, India - 02 Jul 2022