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  • Kartikeya, also called Murugan, Hindu god of war, standing in front of a peacock and holding a spear. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A row of the roofs of different types of church and mosque in India with a message about AIDS in Hindu. Lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man performing self-torture, accompanied by a woman. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: with two rods piercing his upper arms, and holding a trident in each hand. Coloured stipple engraving, 1828.
  • 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.
  • Manmatha (Kamadeva), Hindu god of love, shooting arrows with his bow while sitting on a elephant composed of women. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a loincloth and carrying two large weights (?), one in each hand. Gouache painting, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, one holding a sword in a scabbard (left), the other smoking a hookah (right). Gouache painting, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo demon depicted on a stand and surmounted on a torana decorated with smaller figures of demon kings and Hindu gods. Transfer lithograph.
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: seated in the lotus position on a leopard skin, with withered arms raised above his head. Coloured stipple engraving, 1814.
  • An old Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a saffron loincloth and turban and carrying a cloth bundle, pot and beads. Drawing, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: suspended by a hook and two spikes inserted through the muscles of his back. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • 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.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man, seated under a tree, receiving food from a kneeling woman. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
  • Vishnu: a major Hindu deity, the preserver of the universe, with four arms, holding a conch, mace and discus. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Kartikeya, also called Murugan, Hindu god of war, surrounded by a circle of peacock feathers, accompanied by his wives Valli and Devasena. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • India : a gathering of Hindu ascetics (sadhus) at a religious festival: in the background, the Union flag flies over a British military fortification. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu man (sadhu) with long hair, cloak and walking stick stands by a rock from which water springs. Lithograph by L.C. Dickinson, 1844, after Emily Eden.
  • Narasimha, the lion-headed avatar of Vishnu, emerges from a stone pillar to destroy the demon Hiranyakashipu watched by other Hindu deities. Painting by an Indian artist, 1800s.
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: standing, beating a drum with his left hand and plucking a stringed instrument with his right hand. Wood engraving by M. Klinkicht, 1876.
  • Two Hindu ascetics: left, a man holding a peacock feather broom and fan; right, a woman holding a peacock feather broom. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a saffron loincloth and carrying a kamandal (sacred pot), a bowl (?) and an asho (wooden handrest). Drawing, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Narasimha, a lion avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, emerges from a split stone pillar, holding his devotee Prahlada while vanquishing the demon Hiranyakashipu underfoot. Painting by an Indian artist.
  • Image of Siva, the third deity of the Hindu triad. Known both as restorer and destroyer. In the Yajur-Veda he is referred to as the deliverer, the first divine physician.
  • A rishi (hindu teacher with mystical knowledge) with five heads and four arms, holding prayer beads in three hands and a manuscript in the fourth. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A group of men stand around the body of a man laid out on a pyre of logs during a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • An emaciated Hindu ascetic or holy man, seated on a knoll under a tree, with his left hand held over his head; a richly dressed woman pours liquid into his bowl. Gouache painting.
  • A group of men lower the body of a dead man on to a pyre of logs prior to a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • 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.