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Hinduism

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Images

  • Shiva with the Ganges flowing from his head and Parvati seated on a tiger skin with Ganesha, Skanda and Nandi bull surrounded by devotees. Gouache drawing.
  • Brahman. Gouache drawing.
  • Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.
  • Ganesha enthroned holding his symbols with his rat. Watercolour drawing.
  • A couple just married outside a church, a butterfly emblem symbolising a Hindu wedding, and a mosque with a prayer book and two bearded men with the warning of no sex before or outside marriage; an AIDS prevention advertisement for families by GAP-SIRMCE. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A begging Brahman performing a ritual with his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Srirangam, India: water tank in the Temple. Coloured lithograph by T.C. Dibdin after J. Fergusson.
  • Indian silk weaver and spinner with wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A battle. Gouache drawing.
  • A religious figure possibly Shiva being offered food and offerings by two worshippers and two angels. Gouache drawing.
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Works

    • Books

    All the mothers are one : Hindu India and the cultural reshaping of psychoanalysis / Stanley N. Kurtz.

    Kurtz, Stanley N | Date: [1992], ©1992
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    Religion and aging in the Indian tradition / Shrinivas Tilak ; foreword by Katherine K. Young.

    Tilak, Shrinivas, 1939- | Date: 1997, ©1989
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    • Online

    Translation of the letters of a Hindoo Rajah; written previous to, and during the period of his residence in England. To which is prefixed a preliminary dissertation on the history, religion, and manners, of the Hindoos. In two volumes. By Eliza Hamilton, ...

    Hamilton, Elizabeth, 1758-1816. | Date: 1796
  • view The Brihat jataka of Varaha Mihira / translated into English by N. Chidambaram Iyer.
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    • Online

    The Brihat jataka of Varaha Mihira / translated into English by N. Chidambaram Iyer.

    Varāhamihira, 505-587 | Date: 1885
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    Le caducée et la symbolique dravidienne indo-méditerranéenne, de l'arbre, de la pierre, du serpent et de la déesse-mère / J. Boulnois ; index par mme. L. Boulnois ; préface de G. Jouveau-Dubreuil.

    Boulnois, J. (Jean) | Date: 1989
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