#rajput

[along-the-silkroad]

Plate with Nandi in Center, Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Jaipur c. 1800. Cleveland Museum of Art (ID: 1989.352) Petal-shaped canopies filled with floral designs and birds encircle an image of Nandi, the white bull mount of the Hindu destroyer god Shiva. Together they form a lotus flower. The birds are individualized species, showing the care of the metalworker to depict nature in all its variety and splendor. The fowl include peacocks, parakeets, bluebirds, and possibly even Indian rollers. To make the birds’ wings and the details on Nandi, the artist used thin gold wire to create cells, called cloisons, that could then be filled with colored glass. Some of the red glass has been lost on the outer rim of the plate. (Cleveland Museum of Art)

[kaalbela]

Wall paintings in Amer Fort in Rajasthan, India.

This is the main entranceway to the private areas of the fort, and it is entirely covered in beautiful wall paintings. It is called the Ganesh Pol due to an image of Ganesh painted directly above the doorway on the outside. Built during the reign of Mirza Raja Jai Singh (1621-67 AD), Amer fort was home to one of the most influential of the Rajput royal families during the time of the Great Mughals. The Mughal emperor Akbar's marriage to the Rajput princess Mariam-uz-Zamani, popularly known as Jodha Bai, places this court close to the heart of the history of the early Mughals, whose palace spaces were continually adapted by successive rulers.

Via Jordan Quill

[diemelusine]

Jai Singh I of Amber receiving Shivaji Maharaj a day before concluding the Treaty of Purandar (12 June 1665).

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Indian Krishna Defeats the Whirlwind Demon Trinavarta, leaf from a Bhagavata Purana Rajput, Pahari, Guler or Kangra school c. 1770 The Whirlwind demon, Trinavarta, seizes the five month old. Krishna dashes him to death against a stone. Set 40, Bharat Kala Bhavan III: Pahari Paintings Punjab Hills, Guler or Kangra India opaque watercolor on paper Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi (Banaras), Banaras Hindu University, Bharat Kala Bhavan, BKB #6854

[cupofmeat]

Detail from a portrait of Jahangir by Balchand, painted in Agra ca. 1620.

Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

VIJAYA STAMBHA - INDIA

[archesandtextures]

Chajja, or the overhanging roof, finds particular importance in the facade of Rajasthani architecture. Curved chajjas, said to have gained influence during the Mughal era, is however, more commonly seen in Rajput architecture in India

[mneel]

समस्त बन्धुओं को योगेश्वर भगवान श्री कृष्ण के प्रकाट्य दिवस की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें।🪷🪷🪷🪷

जयतु सनातन, जय श्री कृष्ण। 🚩