Hindu Mythology
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Goddess Saraswati
Painting · Raja Ravi Varma
Raja Ravi Varma's Goddess Saraswati (1896) is a cornerstone of modern Indian painting, fusing European academic technique with Hindu sacred iconography and putting the gods into mass-reproducible imag
Krishna and Arjuna on the Chariot
Painting (Indian miniature) · Anonymous (Indian school, 18th-19th century)
This Indian miniature illustrates the central scene of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna driving the chariot of Arjuna on the eve of the Kurukshetra battle, the moment when Arjuna asks why he should fight hi
Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)
Sculpture (bronze, Chola dynasty) · Anonymous (South Indian, Chola period, c. 10th-12th century CE)
This bronze figure of Shiva as Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance, is one of the canonical artifacts of Hindu metaphysics and the single most-reproduced image of South Indian Chola-period sculpture. Shiv
