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 15 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Woman visiting hermit playing vina with attendant and dog.

On paper
Mughal Style
18thC(late)
India

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 15 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
A Raja listening to music on a terrace
Mandsaur, c. 1800

A Raja holding a rose-sprig listens to his female musicians on a terrace, while a pet dog lies nearby.

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 15 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Veena

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 15 Sep 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Music and Musical Instruments of southern India and the Deccan
By Charles Russel Day
The plates drawn by William Gibb
Published by Novello, Ewer & Co., London - 1891

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 15 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Ascetics making music, illustrating the musical mode Kedar Raga
Arki, Himachal Pradesh
Late 17th century

The musical mode Kedar is visualised as two yogis or ascetics making music within a small pavilion. Seated on a leopard skin, a traditional seat of yogis who have mastered the temptations of ... Read More
 18 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Divan-i-Hafiz
By Hafiz
Translated from Persian to English by Henry Wilberforce Clarke
Published by Government of India Central Printing Office, Calcutta- 1891


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 17 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
Translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Published by William Heineman, London - 1897

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 8 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Translated into English prose from the original Sanskrit text
By Pratap Chandra Roy and Kisari Mohan Ganguli Published by Bharata Press, Calcutta - 1884

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 6 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Das Mahabharata
By Johann H. Becker
Published in Berlin - 1888
In German

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Murlidhar Krishna with Flute
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 6 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Mahabharata - A Criticism
By V. Vaidya
Published by A.J. Cambridge & Co., Bombay - 1905


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 4 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
MAHABHARATA - THe Epic of Ancient India
Condensed into English Verse
By Romesh Chunder Dutt
With an introduction by F.Max Muller
Published J.M.Dent & Co., London - 1899

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 31 May 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira
Translated into English by N. Chidambaram Iyer
Printed by Thomson & Co., Madras - 1905
Second Edition - Revised and Enlarged

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 23 May 2013 Article/Essay
Scientific opinion:
A critical study of the work - VYMANIKA SHASTRA
By H.S.Mukunda, S.M.Deshpande, H.R.Nagendra, A.Prabhu and S.P.Govindaraju
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 1974

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 21 Apr 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Hindu Music from Various Authors
By Rajah Comm. Sourindro Mohun Tagore
Published by I. C. Bose & Co. - Calcutta - 1882


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 20 Apr 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Ragas and Raginis
By Professor O.C.Ganguly
Published by Nalanda Books - 1935


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Album leaf (recto). Ragamala. A: Woman with fireworks. B: Karnati Ragini. C: Karnati Ragini. D: Bhairavi Ragini. On paper.
18th century
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 18 Apr 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Music of India
By Herbert Arthur Popley
Published by Association Press, Calcutta - 1921


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 18 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
Princess listening to music
Guler, India
ca. 1810-ca. 1820
Gouache on paper
Pahari style

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 18 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
Brush drawing on paper, with touches of red, depicting drawings of a female musician.

Rajasthan, India (Jodhpur or Bikaner)
c. 1820

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 18 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
Ladies embracing, attended by servants with wine and music, and a servant with a peacock fan.

18th century AD
Watercolour and gilt on paper
Mughal

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 18 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
A lady seated on a chair on a terrace with two attendants listening to music. Signed.

18th century
Mughal Style

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 18 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
Drawing. Two lovers listening to music played by women. Drawn on paper. Nala and Damayanti (?).

18th century
Pahari Style (Pahari School)

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