Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label adhered to the back of the print reads: 'INDRA & his consort / INDRANI represented / as worshipping SIVA / & his consort PARVATI / with GANESHA in / her arms. / Vide "Gods of India' / pp49 & Plate'. Postscript: 'C&D I.H.N. Evans, 1920'.
Event Date
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (CMS Context)
Z number allocated on 30 4 1987. The inscription on the back of one of the prints gives an incorrect identification, " Kamadeva..." . The Hindi inscription on front is " Shri Rama Chaindonja." (Chris Pinney, SOAS, 1993).; Exhibited: On display in the Maudslay Hall, CUMAA, from 1990.; Collected by: Evans.I.H.N
Event Date 1/12/1995
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (CMS Description)
Twenty-three coloured glossy printed pages of deities from the text by Vide, " Gods of India" . The bottom of each page has a registration number, an inscription in Hindi and " Ravi Varma Press. Karla Lonavla."
Event Date 1/12/1995
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Amendments / updates)
'The prints have been split into their own records to allow for easier identification of the prints. All the relevant information has been transferred to each record'.
Event Date 10/12/2018
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Poster or printed page of the Hindu deities 'Indra' and 'Indrani' who are shown worshipping 'Shiva' and 'Parvati'. Everyone is shown riding a top of an elephant, which are adorned with richly coloured blankets. Indra is shown with blue skin and four arms; the front two are supporting his consort Indrani and the back two arms holding a club and a conch shell. Shiva is also shown with four arms, one of which is proffering a bowl towards Indrani, another is supporting his consort Parvati and the back two arms are holding a conch shell and a trident. In the arms of Parvati is her son, the elephant headed deity Ganesh. Above the figures are winged attendants holding flowers and water vessels. This print is one of twenty-three coloured glossy printed pages of deities from the text by Raja Ravi Varma, "Gods of India".
Event Date 10/12/2018
Author: ashleigh griffin