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Project / Collection Polier Collection Archive Reference (shelfmark) Or 4769-4770 Subject Rites and Ceremonies

1. Or 4769, f.3

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4769, f.3
Title:
Brahma, seated on a chabutra before a sacrificial fire, which separates him from his wife, here called Brahmani, she similarly seated, making an offering to the fire. Around the latter are gold sacrifical implements, trays of offerings, etc.
Scope & Content:
Brahma, four faced, crowned, bearded and white, four armed (back-scratcher, manuscript, nothing, gesturing towards the fire), wearing a white dhoti, seated on a chabutra before a sacrificial fire, which separates him from his wife, here called Brahmani, she similarly seated, wearing a gold flowe...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

2. Or 4769, f.7

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4769, f.7
Title:
A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess slaying the buffalo-demon, with other divinities.
Scope & Content:
A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess and others. They show Durga, ten armed, all but her principal arms treated like wings behind her shoulders, but all bearing weapons. She is standing with one foot planted on her lion, the other on the shoulde...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

3. Or 4769, f.8

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4769, f.8
Title:
Kali standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva. This is possibly an image as constructed for the Kalipuja festival.
Scope & Content:
Kali, black, her black hair loose down her back, her red tongue protruding, wearing a skirt of human hands and a necklace of heads, her earrings of human figures, four armed (head, sword, gesture, reassurance), standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva, a snake around his body, and wea...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

4. Or 4770, f.27

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4770, f.27
Title:
A shaven headed brahmin making an offering to an image of the Goddess.with all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (fruit and flowers, pots of water etc., lamps, coconut, conch shell, bell).
Scope & Content:
A shaven headed Brahmin, wearing a dhoti and with a scarf over his shoulder, and holding a book in front of him, sitting cross-legged in a landscape, with a little gilt image of the Goddess before him, and all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (fruit and flowers, pots of water etc....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

5. Or 4770, f.28

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4770, f.28
Title:
A shaven headed brahmin making an offering to an image of Vishnu and Laksmi with all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (fruit and flowers, pots of water etc., lamps, coconut, conch shell, bell).
Scope & Content:
A Brahmin dressed and seated similarly to 27, his right hand in front of him concealed in a red bag telling his beads, his eyes closed in concentration, his left resting on his leg, with a little gilt image of Visnu and Laksmi before him, and all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

6. Or 4770, f.29

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4770, f.29
Title:
A shaven headed brahmin making an offering to a shaligrama image of Vishnu, with all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (fruit and flowers, pots of water etc., lamps, coconut, conch shell, bell).
Scope & Content:
A Brahmin dressed and seated similarly to 28, also telling his beads, with all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (no image, with the saligrama stone at the centre of the implements). Inscribed in Persian below: ‘. parastish shalagram.’ ‘29. The manner of making the Poujah to Sal...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

7. Or 4770, f.30

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4770, f.30
Title:
A shaven headed brahmin making an offering to an image of Ganesh, with all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (fruit and flowers, pots of water etc., lamps, coconut, conch shell, bell).
Scope & Content:
A Brahmin dressed and similarly seated to 27, his hands joined, with red spots on his forehead etc. (with a white vertical streak above on his forehead), with a small gilt image of Ganesa before him and with all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (mostly sweets, and no bell). Inscr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

8. Or 4770, f.31

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4770, f.31
Title:
A brahmin standing before a sivalingam shrine under a fig tree, performing arati with his lamp and holding also a bell, with other offerings and implements around it and on the ground before the brahmin.
Scope & Content:
A Brahmin dressed as in 27, standing before a ‘sivalingam’ shrine under a fig tree, performing ‘arati’ with his lamp and holding also a bell. The ‘sivalingam’ has flowers on it and a pot of water above lustrating it, with other offerings and implements around it and on the ground before the Bra...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

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