EditorialAmbav, Maharaja Sovan Singh playing pachisi, India, Udaipur, Mewar, Rajasthan, Ambav (Indian, active 1860s), ca. 1868, India, Udaipur, Mewar, Rajasthan, Opaque watercolor with gold on paper, inscribed in devanagari on the reverse, Image: 8 3/4 ? 11 15/...
EditorialA Purana. The text of the 'Sri Bhagavata Purana'. A Purana written in Devanagari, one of eighteen Puranas in Sanskrit. . Source: Add. 16624, whole manuscript. Language: Sanskrit.
EditorialTHE CAR OF JUGGERNAUT. Hindu Ratha Yatra temple car, which apocryphally was reputed to crush devotees under its wheels. The word is derived from the Sanskrit Jaganna?tha (Devanagari) "world-lord", one of the names of Krishna found in the Sanskrit epics.