Vallabhacharya's Vision on the Bank of the Yamuna
Nathdwara, Rajasthan; Circa 1850
Source: Christie's
"Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the holy man sits on a white mat trimmed with gold, his face with a gold halo, Krishna as Shri Nathji appears before him together with Balarama and another infant, peacocks and peahens around, surrounded by luxuriant trees inhabited with birds, the silver Yamuna in the foreground, in trimmed yellow borders"
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The Saptarṣis
“Master of Pahari painting at the court of Mankot (attr.), c. 1675–1700. Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh.”
Image and text from: Ardor (2010)- Roberto Calasso
“The hymns of the Ṛgveda were said to have been seen by the ṛṣis. The ṛṣis may therefore be described as “seers.” They saw the hymns in the same way as we see a tree or a river. They were the most disconcerting, least easily explainable beings in the Vedic cosmos. Chief among them were the Saptarṣis, the Seven who lived in the stars of the Great Bear, who have some affinity with the Seven Greek Sages, with the Islamic abdāls, and with the Seven Akkadian Apkallus of the Apsu. But something in the very nature of the ṛṣis was an epistemological scandal: they alone were allowed to belong to the unmanifest and at the same time take part in the events of everyday life, which they secretly ruled.”
(Calasso, p. 93)
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Espeon and Sylveon ko-fi doodle for a ko-fi supporter!
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Clover’s Memories
Part 2
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