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  • Shiva with the Ganges and Nandi bull with Durga and lion seated on lotuses. Gouache drawing.
  • Saravati holding a musical instrument, sitting on a lotus in water. Lithograph.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo Demon. Chromolithograph, 1883.
  • Sarasvati with her sitar and peacock. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Surya the sun deity driving in his chariot. Gouache drawing.
  • Lakshmi lustrated by two elephants. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Krishna steering a peacock-headed boat carrying five women. Watercolour drawing.
  • Page 8: Shiva and Parvati riding on Nandi bull. Watercolour drawing.
  • Ravana slaughtering Jatayu the vulture, while an abducted Sita looks away in horror. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Radha and Krishna flanked by two devotees. Chromolithograph.
  • Vishnu reclining on the ocean with Brahma springing from a lotus growing from Vishnu's navel with attendants. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Krishna embracing Radha. Chromolithograph.
  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • Rādhā and Krishna embrace in the countryside. Chromolithograph, 1882.
  • Rama and Sita enthroned with servant and monkey. Lithograph.
  • Page 131: Hanuman. Gouache drawing.
  • A religious figure possibly Shiva being offered food and offerings by two worshippers and two angels. Gouache drawing.
  • Shukra and Rambha. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1894.
  • Rama enthroned with Sita surrounded by Hanuman, Garuda, Krishna and one other. Chromolithgraph.
  • Baby Krishna tied to a mortar which is caught in between two trees resulting in their uprooting, surrounded by a decorative border. Wood engraving (?).
  • Kichaka making indecent proposals to a frightened Draupadi.
  • The ten Madavidyas. Chromolithograph.
  • Shiva begging from Annapurna. Watercolour drawing.
  • Rāma and Sītā being carried in the beak of Jatayu. Watercolour drawing, c. 1880.
  • The cow as mother of the world: with pictures of Hindu deities all over its body. Coloured lithograph.
  • Sakuntalā writing a letter on a leaf in a daydream with two others. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • The gopis complaining to Yasoda about Krishna's pranks. Chromolithograph.
  • Shiva carrying his wife in her Sakti form. Watercolour drawing.
  • Unidentified god riding on winged lion. Gouache drawing.
  • A hoopoe. Watercolour drawing.