Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label adhered to the back of the print reads: 'Probably / KAMADEVA / consumed by a flash / of fire from the 3rd eye / of SIVA (as mendicant). / Vide "Gods of India' / p. 158'. 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 deity 'Shiva', who is depicted as a 'mendicant' or beggar. Shiva is shown cross legged on top of a large rock, wearing an animal pelt around the body and painted with white bands across his body and wooden beads around his neck. There is a ray of fire emitting from the third eye in his forehead, which is pointed towards Kamadeva, who is shown consumed by fire. In his hands is a bow and an arrow. To the right of the print are a number of soldiers wearing red and blue robes. 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