A Vaisnava mendicant armed with a large bowl, flag and palm-leaf manuscript
Scope & Content:
A Vaishnava mendicant armed with a large bowl, flag and palm-leaf manuscript, wearing a high, flat-topped turban. 202 by 162 mm. Note: He is called a Satana (= ‘cattani’) in Add.Or.1641 and a Wusteewar in Add.Or 50.
Possibly a juice seller. 204 by 161 mm. . Note: He wears a Madras ‘lungi’ and over-shirt, with a pointed cap, and carries a cloth, strainer, bag? and vegetables?
Two standing Saiva ascetics, dressed in saffron robes, one a Kanphat yogi playing a sarangi, the other a Jangama (Lingayat) priest wearing a feathered turban and long braids of hair, and carrying a bell.
Scope & Content:
Two standing Saiva ascetics, dressed in saffron robes, one a Kanphat yogi playing a ‘sarangi’, the other a Jangama (Lingayat) priest wearing a feathered turban and long braids of hair, and carrying a bell.
A silver-stick bearer (suntabardar) dressed in deep-blue coat, paijama, and magnificently curling up slippers, carrying a curved, lion’s-headed mace.
Scope & Content:
A silver-stick bearer (‘suntabardar)’ dressed in deep-blue coat, paijama, and magnificently curling up slippers, carrying a curved, lion’s-headed mace.