Sunday 20 December 2015

Paris - Day 2 (morning cont.) - Guimet Museum (cont.) - Indian and Nepalese artefacts - The 23rd of November 2015


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Having left the Angkor area I "immersed" myself in the artefacts from India and Nepal with the same interest I had previously diplayed. Not having set foot on the latter country yet I "travelled" through and with its artefacts.





Tamil Nadu - Nayak period - 16th century




















Siva Lingodbhavamurti - Tamil Nadu - Cola period - 13th century (left). Kali - Tamil Nadu - 14th-15th century (right).




















Visnu Vasudeva - Karnataka - Hoysala period - 12the century (left).Yogini - Tamil Nadu - beginiing of Cola period - 9th-10th century (right).







Devi - Himachai Pradesh - 13th century



















Visnu Caturmurti - Kashmir - 12th century (left). Yamuna - Madhya Pradesh - 8th-9th century (right).





















Buddha - Uttar Pradesh - Gupta period - 430-435.








Nepal - Pancaraksa tantra manuscript - 12th-13th century.








Nepal - Jina - 18th century

















Nepal - Svayambhupurana mythical story of Nepal - beginning of the 19th century.









Nepal - Avalokitesvara (detail) - 1860








(To be continued)










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