EditorialAfter many thousands of years of Rāma’s righteous but lonely rule over the world, Death, in the form of an ascetic, visits Rāma and informs him of Brahmā’s message: as Rāma has completed his mission and lived eleven thousand years as a mortal o...
EditorialRāva?a, in the Pu?paka chariot, and the rāk?asas accompanying him, come across a beautiful palace, and Prahasta is sent to enquire who lives there. Prahasta encounters a fearsome, dark doorkeeper enveloped in flames, and is then shown departing...
EditorialJ. Pass, English, active 1796-1800, Life-Preserver, ca. 1813, engraving printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper, Plate: 10 1/4 ? 7 3/4 inches (26 ? 19.7 cm).
EditorialVishnu, Thakuri period, 10th?11th century, Nepal (Kathmandu Valley), Gilt-copper alloy, H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); W. 5 in. (12.7 cm); D. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Wt. 2 lbs (.9 kg), Sculpture, Vishnu as the divine protector and preserver of order assumes a sym...
EditorialSleeping Vishnu Sleeping Vishnu Head of Vishnu Reclining, Head of a sleeping Vishnu, head is slightly slanted on the neck, Vishnu, protector and preserver of the world, anonymous, Cambodja, c. 1100 - c. 1300, sandstone, h 32.8 cm ? w 20.2 cm ? d 19.4 c...
EditorialThree-headed Vishnu, Visnu with three heads. Made from green soapstone, Vishnu, protector and preserver of the world, anonymous, Kashmir, c. 750 - c. 825, soapstone (metamorphic rock), h 64.0 cm ? w 31.0 cm ? d 14 cm, 31.6 kg.
EditorialTitelblatt zu Galen, " ... the second classismateriam health preserver reports ... ', Title page for Galenus '... secunda classismateriam sanitatis conseruatricem tradit ...' from the 16th century, title page, 1576, Galenus: Galeni librorum secunda cla...
EditorialAfter many thousands of years of Rāma’s righteous but lonely rule over the world, Death, in the form of an ascetic, visits Rāma and informs him of Brahmā’s message: as Rāma has completed his mission and lived eleven thousand years as a mortal o...
EditorialRāva?a, in the Pu?paka chariot, and the rāk?asas accompanying him, come across a beautiful palace, and Prahasta is sent to enquire who lives there. Prahasta encounters a fearsome, dark doorkeeper enveloped in flames, and is then shown departing...
EditorialVishnu and Lakshmi. The Bhagavatapurana. (Purana of the Blessed Lord). 1806. According to Hindu mythology, Sesha Naga or Ananta (an immense snake with several heads) coiled up to make a bed for Vishnu (the preserver of the Universe). He is lying on its...
EditorialAfter many thousands of years of Rāma’s righteous but lonely rule over the world, Death, in the form of an ascetic, visits Rāma and informs him of Brahmā’s message: as Rāma has completed his mission and lived eleven thousand years as a mortal o...
EditorialRāva?a, in the Pu?paka chariot, and the rāk?asas accompanying him, come across a beautiful palace, and Prahasta is sent to enquire who lives there. Prahasta encounters a fearsome, dark doorkeeper enveloped in flames, and is then shown departing...
EditorialVishnu and Lakshmi. The Bhagavatapurana. (Purana of the Blessed Lord). 1806. According to Hindu mythology, Sesha Naga or Ananta (an immense snake with several heads) coiled up to make a bed for Vishnu (the preserver of the Universe). He is lying on its...
EditorialVishnu, Thakuri period, 10th?11th century, Nepal (Kathmandu Valley), Gilt-copper alloy, H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); W. 5 in. (12.7 cm); D. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Wt. 2 lbs (.9 kg), Sculpture, Vishnu as the divine protector and preserver of order assumes a sym...
EditorialAn Ornithologist, Probably John Latham An Ornithologist, Probably Mr. Thomson, Animal and Bird Preserver to the Leverian and British Museums (Previously Identified as Dr. John Latham), 1802 Dr. John Latham, Ramsay Richard Reinagle, 1775-1862, British.
EditorialSandstone stele depicting Matsya, Indian, 9th CE. The Hindu god Vishnu is a preserver and maintainer of order in the universe. In times of spiritual and political decline, Vishnu descends on earth in an incarnation. In the great flood Vishnu took the f...