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Gangaram Chintaman Navgire Tambat, active 1790s

Sarvanubhuti Relief Sculpture in Indra Sabha Temple, Ellora

between 1793 and 1795

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Gangaram Chintaman Navgire Tambat, Sarvanubhuti Relief Sculpture in Indra Sabha Temple, Ellora, between 1793 and 1795, Gray wash, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.22340.




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  • Creator

    Gangaram Chintaman Navgire Tambat, active 1790s

  • Title

    Sarvanubhuti Relief Sculpture in Indra Sabha Temple, Ellora

  • Former Title(s)

    Figure from Indus Sabha

  • Date

    between 1793 and 1795

  • Materials & Techniques

    Gray wash, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper

  • Dimensions

    Sheet: 11 1/8 × 8 3/4 inches (28.3 × 22.2 cm)

  • Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering

    Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink: "Errole Caves | The Figure Opposite that mark'd X in the Cave | called Indur Subba - There are a great Many | Figures in this Cave called by the People Who Shew | Them the <...> Symbols of the Common Hindoo Worship | but which Gungarum concludes to be Figures of the Scivsa | System - He also says that ^ Raja | Veroo or Veloo ^ or Eeloo | was a Disciple | of the Scivsas Who being affiliated with some Cutaneous Disorder & being cur'd by Accidental Bathing in the Water of this Place consecrated | It & order'd These Wonderful Marks to be Executed in Commemoration | of his Relief & to preserve the Sanctity of the Place Which from Him | is continued to be called <...> Verole alias Errole - and there | is a Terab or <bathing> place of Purification ^ by Bathing & Alms | Which is called Scival Terat [Shivalaya Tirth] | near which is a Temple of Mahdew under the Upper station of | B | Grishmeyshwur [Grishneshwar] | rebuilt by Aliabyhe [Ahilyabai] the Dowager of the Holkar Family. It is said that | the Extraordinary Fort of Doulalabad originally called Davghiri is also the | Work of the above Raja. - This Figure & its Pair is frequently repeated | throughout the fabel"

  • Credit Line

    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

  • Copyright Status

    Public Domain

  • Accession Number

    B1977.14.22340

  • Classification

    Drawings & Watercolors

  • Collection

    Prints and Drawings

  • Subject Terms

    elephant (animal) | Hinduism | religious and mythological subject | seated

  • Associated Places

    Ellora | India

  • Access

    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

  • Link

    https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17666

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Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye : An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 27, no. 53, V2359 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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