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  • Hindu goddesses Lakshami and Saraswati playing castanets and a tambura. Watercolour drawing.
  • Figure of Saraswati, Hindu Goddess, standing on a duck
  • Rati, Hindu goddess of love, shooting arrows with her bow. Gouache painting an Indian artist.
  • Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning and knowledge and the wife of Brahma. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A goat about to be beheaded as a Hindu ritual in honour of the goddess Kālī. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Dhumavati, Hindu goddess of misfortune and unpleasantness, sitting in a chariot drawn by birds before a dead body. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A three eyed Hindu deity with four arms sitting across a goddess with four arms holding rosary beads. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Rati, Hindu goddess of love, shooting arrows with a bow while seated on a horse formed from five women. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Devi, the wife of the Hindu God Siva. Goddess has two forms, one mild and the other fierce. Here she is depicted in the form of fierce, when she is known as Durga or Kali.
  • Lakshmi sitting on a lotus being anointed by two elephants. Watercolour drawing.
  • Radha and Krishna on a lotus flower. Watercolour drawing.
  • Saraswati sitting on a lotus with her elephant fish. Coloured lithograph.
  • Shiva carrying his wife in her Sakti form. Watercolour drawing.
  • Kali holding a demon's head. Watercolour.
  • Durga riding on her lion killing a demon. Watercolour drawing.
  • A goddess on a flowering plant holding a baby elephant, could either be Lakshmi or Parvati. Watercolour drawing.
  • Rāma and Sītā being carried in the beak of Jatayu. Watercolour drawing, c. 1880.
  • Parvati enthroned nursing Ganesha. Watercolour drawing.
  • Hanuman revealing Rama and Sita in his heart. Watercolour drawing.
  • Radha and Krishna. Watercolour drawing.
  • Sarasvati sitting on lotuses plying her vina. Watercolour drawing.
  • Illustrated tantric scroll showing rewards devotees receive from worship and obedience to demi-gods. At the top, a mythical creature displaying features of various animals, e. g. tail of a peacock, the bill of a crow etc. Below, to the left, Mahakala and Mahakali, god and goddess of fire are illustrated, with to the right the Hakini or demi-god with seven faces, the middle face having three eyes.
  • High-relief of Indra, god of the firmament.
  • Illustrated tantric scroll showing rewards devotees receive from worship and obedience to demi-gods. At the top, a mythical creature displaying features of various animals, e. g. tail of a peacock, the bill of a crow etc. Below, to the left, Mahakala and Mahakali, god and goddess of fire are illustrated, with to the right the Hakini or demi-god with seven faces, the middle face having three eyes.
  • Dhumávati on a temple chariot. Coloured lithograph.
  • Devi in her benign and ferocious forms
  • Brass figure of Jvara with three heads and legs and six arms. Jvara is said to be the god of malarial fever. Probably a Hindu village deity.
  • Anointment of Lakshmi. Gouache drawing.
  • Lakshmi lustrated by two elephants. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Lakshmi lustrated by two elephants. Watercolour, 18--.