Essay name: Purana Bulletin
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Affiliation: University of Kerala / Faculty of Oriental Studies
The "Purana Bulletin" is an academic journal published in India. The journal focuses on the study of Puranas, which are a genre of ancient Indian literature encompassing mythological stories, traditions, and philosophical teachings. They represent Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit and cover a wide range of subjects.
Purana, Volume 12, Part 1 (1970)
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[Vol. XII, No. 1
V膩mana standing before them. In this particular painting the
deity is wearing a crown and the quaint jewellery of the period.
The one eyed Sukr膩c膩rya, the guru of Bali, is standing on the left
of Vamana and trying to dissuade the king to do so. In another
contemporary Pah膩r墨 painting30, Vamana is represented not as a
young brahmac膩r墨 but as an old r峁 or a saint. His hair and the
long beard are shown white. The body of the dwarfish pot-bellied
god is nude excepting that he wears a white dhoti, and carries an
umbrella in one of his hands.
It appears that in spite of the iconographic variations, the
fashioning of the images of Vamana was a favourite subject among
the artists in India and his worship was quite popular in all
the ages!.
29. S. S. Lal, Catalogue and Guide to the State Museum, Bharatpur,
Jaipur, 1960-61, pl. XV.
30. Our colleague 艢ri V. P. Dwivedi has kindly drawn my attention
to this painting and I am grateful to him for the same.
31. Photographs have been obtained through the courtesy of the
Director, National Museum, New Delhi, and have been nicely
prepared by Sri N. Shah, Photographer. The photograph of
Plate VII has been kindly supplied by Dr. Satya Prakash Sri-
vastava, Director, Archaeology & Museums, Govt. of Rajasthan,
Jaipur. For photograph of plate VIII I am grateful to 艣r墨
R. B. Narayana, curator, Sanskrit University Museum, Varanasi.
