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A collection of ornamental figures of various Hindu deities decorating a temple wall.
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Sandstone sculpture of Indra, king of the gods in Vedic tradition, from India (Uttar...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Ex Coll.: Columbia University, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1987 (1987.218.12a, b), www. metmuseum.org
Vedic-era sky and water deity Varuna riding on a makara (crocodile), opaque...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Felix and Helen Juda Foundation (M.72.4.2), www.lacma.org
Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma (left to right) pay homage to Mahadevi (the great goddess,...
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In chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna grants to Arjuna a vision of...
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art (S2018.1.3), https://asia-archive.si.edu/object/S2018.1.3/ (CC0)
Akrura informing Nanda and Yashoda of Kamsa's plot to kill Krishna, folio from a...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eisenberg, 1983 (1983.507.4); www.metmuseum.org
A Ganesha shrine with devotional objects, outside the Shiva Nataraja (“Lord of the...
© Charles Preston
A sculpture of Shankara at his birthplace in Kalady, Kerala state, India.
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A 19th-century German-British scholar, Friedrich Max Müller was an influential voice...
Courtesy of the Curator of the Senior Common Room, Christ Church, Oxford
Educator, reformer, and philosopher Ram Mohan Roy, illustration, c. 1914.
From The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy, compiled and edited by Sophia Dobson Collet, 1914
Hindu monk and spiritual leader Vivekananda promulgated Vedanta philosophy. He was...
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