CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Subject: Sangita-Mandapa; Painted ceiling; Scenes from the life of Rishabhadeva (top to bottom): 1. the Manus 2. the fourteenth Manu Nabhi Maharaja and his wife Marudevi; Marudevi dreaming; Nabhi explaining to her the significance of her dreams 3. Marudevi's dreams 4. Celestial ladies (devis) attending on Marudevi; birth of Rishabhadeva; removal of the child by Sachi for Janmabhisheka 5. the procession to Panduka-vana for Janmabhisheka 6. Janmabhisheka ceremony; return of the party from Panduka-vana 7. Return of the party to the city and Saudharmendra dancing, after placing Rishabhadeva on a throne.

Subject: Sati slab: Maharaja and Maharani

Subject: Mahinder Singh died in 1876 at the age of twenty-three. Rajendra Singh then succeeded to the gaddi as a four year old and died in 1900. Note how the artist has utilized many of the conventions of Indian painting such as two-dimensional depiction of the ground. Although miniature paintings usually showed heads in profile, this is a full-face portrait. [Overpainted Photograph of Maharaja Mahinder Singh or his Son Rajendra Singh]

Subject: Commemorative silver rupee honoring the 50th anniversary of the reign of Maharaja Ganga Singh

Subject: Upper portion, landscape; Maharaja Sri Prabh Singhji and Ladies

Subject: Inscription of Maharaja JayasenaMaharaja Jayasena

Subject: Mandapa, Ceiling with painted and sculpted ribs and painted panels; Built to commemorate of their son Maharaja Kumar Jagat Singhji (d. 1599)

Subject: Mandapa, Towards sanctuary and enshrined image; Built to commemorate of their son Maharaja Kumar Jagat Singhji (d. 1599)

Subject: The enamel portrait of Krishna and Radha is inscribed "The Bestower of happiness on his people" and "King of the West". This award was instituted circa 1936 by Maharaja Bhupinder Singh, who also created the Order of the Holy Saint with enamel portrait of Guru Gobind Singh. This badge was worn with an even more elaborate gold collar, neck badge and star. [Sash badge inscribed "2" for the Order of Krishna (Yaduvansh Manya Mandal)]

Subject: Photo: Johnston and Hoffman; illustrated in S. Playne, Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa, pp. 453, London: Foreign & Colonial Compiling & Publishing Co., 1917. Jitendra Narayan ascended to the gaddi in 1913 after his brother drank himself to death when the British broke up his romance with a British woman. [Installation of Maharaja Jitendra Narayan Bhup]

Subject: An inscription on the reverse names the horse rider as Ram Singh and the nobles as Rao Bakhat Singh, Maharaja Pratap Singh, Pancholi Kishandas, Tuar Kishan Singh, Chauhan Zoravar Singh, and Sakhavat Shyam Singh. [Maharana Sangram Singh II at the Chaugan Watching the Tame Elephant Raj Gak Defeating a Tiger]

Subject: Turban ornament with colored photograph of Maharaja George Jivaji Rao Sindhia

Subject: Center portion, Maharaja entertained by dancer; Maharaja Sri Prabh Singhji and Ladies

Subject: Sati slab: Maharaja and Maharani

Subject: Base: Female figures; Built to commemorate of their son Maharaja Kumar Jagat Singhji (d. 1599)

Subject: Tower; Base; Built to commemorate of their son Maharaja Kumar Jagat Singhji (d. 1599)

Subject: Above: drawing used for revenue stamp; below: stamp depicting Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar [Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar (r. 1895 - 1940)]

Subject: This painting was done for Maharaja Man Singh II who felt slighted when the Maharana of Mewar refused to let him marry a daughter promised to his late predecessor. The princess finally committed suicide to preserve the honor of all participants. [Sati Throws Herself in the Sacrificial Fire of Her Father Daksha to Avenge a Slight to Her Husband Shiva]

Subject: Upper left portion, Head of Jagat Singh; Maharaja Sawai Jagat Singh of Jaipur; Jagat Singh of Jaipur

Subject: Good Service Medal with photographic image of Maharaja Venkat Raman Singh

Subject: Agit Singh was the brother of Maharaja Umed Singh. These fiscals were used in courts on his estates within Jodhpur. [Ajit Singhi Estate: Agit Singh Prime Minister of Jodhpur in 1947]

Subject: Buddha standing, lower part. The sharply incised three line Brahmi epigraph is translated as follows: In the 93rd year (171A.D) of Maharaja Devaputra Vasudeva, in the 4th month of Hemanta as on the 25th day, an image of the Buddha, who has full grasp of knowledge and whose faith cannot be shaken, was set up along with parasol by a Buddhist monk who was Kayastha (?) after paying due respect to his father Sarvanandi, mother Jivsri and Arya Dhana . Found from Krishna Puri (Mathura)

Subject: Upper right portion, farmer plowing and man drawing water from well; Thakur Udai Singh, tenth ruler of Sawar; Maharaja Udai Singh Picnicking in the Garden

Subject: Upper portion, landscape with army; Maharaja Gaja Singh (1620-1638); Maharaja Gaja Singh