CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Subject: Middle portion, panel: Vidura Pandita Jataka; Stupa Vedika (Railing), Upright

Subject: Lower left portion, Yaksa General Punnaka flying on his horse; Stupa Vedika (Railing) Upright, Panel, Vidura Pandita Jataka

Subject: Upper right portion, Yaksa General Punnaka with Vidura Pandita; Stupa Vedika (Railing) Upright, Panel, Vidura Pandita Jataka

Subject: Lower portion, panel: Ajatasatru's Visit; Stupa Vedika (Railing) Entrance, Ajatasatru Pillar

Subject: Upper portion, Panel with palace scene with seated Nagas; Stupa Vedika (Railing), Upright

Subject: Upper portion, Panel with palace scene with seated Nagas, lower register: Seated Nagas; Stupa Vedika (Railing), Upright

Subject: Upper portion, top register: Defeat of Mara by Buddha in the form of enthroned triratna ; Stupa Vedika (Railing), Entrance, Prasenajit Pillar

Subject: Upper portion, top register: Defeat of Mara by Buddha in the form of enthroned triratna ; Stupa Vedika (Railing), Entrance, Prasenajit Pillar

Subject: Upper portion, Multiple caityas; Stupa Vedika (Railing), Upright

Subject: Thrones of Four Buddhas; Stupa Vedika (Railing)

Subject: Stupa Vedika (Railing). Section of balustrade: Railing with devotees at a tree shrine and Asokan pillar with elephant capital

Subject: Panels: Elephants worship; Stupa Vedika (Railing)

Subject: Congratulations to Buddha; Stupa Vedika (Railing), Upright

Subject: Congratulations to Buddha: Lower portion, Elephant; Stupa Vedika (Railing), Upright

Subject: World War I medal for the Bhavnagar War Hospital [Maharaja Takhatsinhji and the Maharani]

Subject: Including a view of the old Sihore Fort and "war scenes from the fresco of the Old Darbar Gadh of Killeh Sihore" with the capture of Chital [1793], the Battle of Tana [1794] and the Battle of Patna {1796]. [Playing cards from "The Bhavnagar State Historical Picture Series" ]

Subject: The Gohel Rajput chief of a Kathiawar state known for its Jain temples. [Thakur Mansinghji (b. 1863)]

Subject: Fragment: upper portion, Female torso

Subject: Fragment, Male Head

Subject: The set depicted Indian princes as well as African and American Indian chiefs. Sikandar Begum was the first of three female rulers of this Muslim state. They controlled the state from 1819-37 and 1844-1926. Fatah Bibi, Mamola Bai and Qudsia were three other women leaders who held great power before Sikander. [Secunder Begum of Bhopal from the cigarette card set "Savage And Semi barbarous Chiefs And Rulers" put out by W.S. Kimball & Company. ]

Subject: This early receipt stamp is known with the frame inverted in a number of colors. The block with inverts is a recent forgery. [Early Stamps and Later Forgeries]

Subject: The Brahmin raja of a Deccani state with a chhatri

Subject: His Brahmin ancestor Shankaraji Narayan was given this land grant in 1697 when Shivaji's son appointed him Pant Sachiv, one of the hereditary ministers of the Mahrattas. [Diamond Jubilee medal of Raghunathrao Pant Sachiv]

Subject: King on a Throne with Magic Mirror