Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label adhered to the back of the print reads: 'The boar incarnation / (VARĀHA AVATARA) / of Vishnu / Vide "Gods of / India" p. 112 & pl. facing p.110.' 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 'Varaha', the boar headed avatar of Vishnu. He is shown with dark green skin, standing in a large body of water. He is shown with four arms, which are holding a pink lotus blossom, a club, chakra disc with a pentagram and a gold object. Balanced on the tusks and the forehead is the earth. He is shown wearing a yellow textile around the waist, numerous jewelled ornaments and headdress as well as a flower garland around the neck. 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