Keyword: Hindu – Image Gallery
Handprints of women who committed sati
Wall of the Junagarh Fort (Bikaner, Rajasthan, India)
Vishnu, Brahman and three other deities perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice (1800-1899)
London, Wellcome Collection
The sacrificed horse is prepared (1712)
from: Ramayana, Bala Kanda, Ms Add. 15295, fol. 34
British Library, London [from Udaipur]
Candrahasa sacrifices himself cutting off pieces of his own flesh and putting them on the fire [1598]
from: Razmnāmah by Abhinanda, India (The last volume of the Persian translation of the Mahābhārata commissioned in 990 by Akbar)
London, British Library, Or 12076 folio: 90v
Handprints left by the wives of the maharaja before the Sati [1843]
Mehrangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India
Four priests perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice to Agni [1800-1900]
London, Wellcome Collection
Horse sacrifice (Asvamedha) (1712)
from: Ramayana, Bala Kanda, Ms Add. 15295, fol. 33
British Library, London [from Udaipur]
Ladies of Krishna's Harem are Shown the Sacrificial Horse (1598)
from: Razmnama Mughal
Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library, London
Sacrificial Fire, from the 'Tula Ram' Bhagavata Purana (c. 1720)
from: Western India, Gujarat, Surat
The Cleveland Museum of Art (Gift of John D. Proctor)
A Ruler Performing Yajna (Fire Ritual) (1801 - 1900)
Islamic & Indian Paintings, The Dexter Collection Part II, London
Rama accompanied by a golden statue of Sita performs the Ashwamehda Yajna. The sage Valmiki participates. They sit before a ritual Yajna fire. [1790]
from: folio from a dispersed Ramayana series
Sotheby's
Valmiki instructs Kusha and Lava in the recitation of the "Ramayana" before the occasion of a sacrifice in Rama's palace (1597-1605)
from: The Ramayana (Tales of Rama; The Freer Ramayana), Volume 2
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.
Snake Sacrifice [1690]
from: Udaipur, Rajasthan state, Mewar, India
Henri Vever Collection, Freer|Sackler gallery at the Smithsonian Institution
Nine female deities (?) performing a yagna, a fire sacrifice (1800-1900)
London, Wellcome Collection
Satrughna is wounded by Kusa and Lava during Rama's horse-sacrifice (1616)
from: Leaf from a dispersed manuscript of Razmnama
Harvard University, Fine Arts Library, SS_22349926
Deities and Demons Performing the Yajna Sacrifice from the Devi Mahatmya (18th)
from: India, Rajput
Princeton University Art Museum
The divine messenger (Agnipurusha) rises from the sacrificial fire to bear vessel of celestial food by Nadim (1597- 1605)
from: The Ramayana
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Musei Borgiani Velitris. Tab I. Pictura exhibens sacrificium solis. Tav. II Pictura Indica autographa exhibens holocaustum ignis (1791)
from: Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo, Systema Brahmanicum liturgicum, mythologicum, civile, Rome 1791
New York Public Library
Queen Kaikeyi reminds King Dasharatha about the sacrifices of King Bali and King Shivi, (c. 1710)
from: folio 39 from the Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) of a Ramayana. Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar, Court of Amar Singh II
The Cleveland Museum of Art
A goat about to be beheaded as a Hindu ritual in honour of the goddess Kālī (1800-1899)
Wellcome Collection, London
