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Date: ca 1560 CE

Subject: Center right portion, lion's head revealing under painting beneath flaking paint; The lion suspecting treachery on the part of the monkey, slays him and flees. (n.b. Another layer of painting beneath the present one, where painting has flaked off near the lion's head.)

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Date: ca 1560 CE

Subject: The painting made by the Vizier of the Emperor of China for the Queen of Rum. It depicts a doe abandoning the stag and its young ones in a flood, while the Emperor of China looks on.

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Date: ca 1500-1599 CE

Subject: Central left portion, Atisa: Attendants and figures in yab-yum poses; This painting is identified as Padmasambhava on UM web site. Atisa (982-1054) was an Indian Buddhist reformer whose teachings formed the basis of the Tibetan Bka'-gdams-pa ("Those Bound by Command") sect of Buddhism, founded by his disciple 'Brom-ston.He traveled to Tibet in 1038 or 1042 and established monasteries there. He died at Nyethang monastery.

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Date: ca 1500-1599 CE

Subject: This painting is identified as Padmasambhava on UM web site. Atisa (982-1054) was an Indian Buddhist reformer whose teachings formed the basis of the Tibetan Bka'-gdams-pa ("Those Bound by Command") sect of Buddhism, founded by his disciple 'Brom-ston. He traveled to Tibet in 1038 or 1042 and established monasteries there. He died at Nyethang monastery. [Atisa]

Site Name: Devgarh or Mewar

Date: ca 1815 CE

Subject: It is possible that the prince in the painting is Amar Singh, the son of Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar. [The Lovers' Embrace]

Site Name: Jodhpur

Date: ca 1825 CE

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]

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Date: ca 1750 CE

Subject: This painting comes from a volume generally attributed to Hyderabad state. [Mythical Bird, from Astrological Treatise]

Site Name: Paithan

Date: ca 1840-1860 CE

Subject: Painting used by a wandering bard (chitrakathi) at public performances. This is a folk painting, meant to be held up during public performances. The crude forcefulness in execution is typified by the use of betal nut juice spat at the painting to simulate blood. These paintings have generally been attributed to a place in Maharashtra called Paithan, which was then part of Hyderabad state. [Babhruvahana Shoots the Ardha Candrakrti Vana to Vrsaketu]

Site Name: Sirhind

Date: 1636-37 CE

Subject: Interior, left wing, west (qibla) wall, painting on wall, ceiling and beam

Site Name: Patiala

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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]