CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Subject: Head of the Buddha

Subject: Head of the Buddha

Subject: Seated Buddha Maravijaya, the Enlightened Sakyamuni Buddha, shown after the Defeat of Mara

Subject: Seated Buddha Maravijaya, the Enlightened Sakyamuni Buddha, shown after the Defeat of Mara.; Lap and Bhumisparsa Mudra

Subject: Head, from right, Seated Buddha Maravijaya

Subject: This nawab abdicated in 1920 but was permitted to retain his title as a personal distinction. [Nawab Amir-Ud-Din Ahmed Khan]

Subject: Fragment, probably from a naga-protected Buddha (Mucalinda), Head of the Buddha

Subject: Three-quarter view, from left; fragment, probably from a naga-protected Buddha (Mucalinda), Head of the Buddha

Subject: Naga-protected Buddha (Buddha Mucalinda)

Subject: Walking Buddha in High Relief

Subject: Head of the Buddha

Subject: Standing Buddha

Subject: Bust, Standing Buddha

Subject: Profile of head and torso, from left, Standing Buddha

Subject: Saint Andal

Subject: Back [Saint Andal]

Subject: Princely patronage of music led to development of different gharanas in Maihar, Gwalior, and other states. Allaudin Khan was trained in the Dhrupad style by the court musician of Maharaja Jotindra Mohan Tagore and in violin, clarinet, and cornet by Swami Vivekananda's brother and the band master of the Eden Gardens in Calcutta. He eventually studied sitar and sarod under the tutelage of the court musicians of Rampur and became a disciple of Ustad Wazir Khan. He taught Ravi Shankar, Nikhal Banerjee, and his own son, Ali Akbar Khan. His playing and that of the Maihar gharana are documented in the double CD set Chairman's Choice: Great Gharanas Maihar (EMI CMC 1 82501-2). [Allaudin Khan And The Maihar Band]

Subject: Labels of Bid Merchants

Subject: The Buddhist Goddess Marichi

Subject: Makrai was a Central Indian state, ruled by Raj Gonds. Raj Gonds recognized neither Brahmin superiority nor the ban on cow-killing. Note that this document is stamped in the name of a European official. [Raj Gonds]

Subject: Asavari Ragini

Subject: Musicians and cobras [Asavari Ragini]

Subject: Folio from a Ragamala series; colophon dated Samvat 1813 (1756) [Dipak Raga (Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion), from a Ragamala series]

Subject: Krishna and Radha; folio from a Ragamala series; colophon dated Samvat 1813 (1756) [Dipak Raga (Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion), from a Ragamala series]