Maid brings a message to her mistress from her lover, rasikpriya (illustration) by Kesavadas Sanadhya Misra, famous poet of Orchha, Bundelkhand, Rajput miniature in amber, c. 1600 (Baroda Museum)

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dc.contributor.authorGoetz, Hermann
dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialIndia (Orchha, Madhya Pradesh)
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-06T00:01:52Z
dc.date.available2019-12-06T00:01:52Z
dc.date.created1959
dc.date.updated2019-12-06T00:01:51Z
dc.descriptionThe maid brings a message to her mistress from her lover. An illustration to the Rasikpriya (The Moods of the Beloved) by Kesavadas Sanadhya Misra, a famous poet of Orchha in Bundelkhand in the late 16th century. In the 15th and 16th centuries Rajput princesses often selected their own lovers and husbands. Moreover, the princes had illicit relations not only with courtesans and concubines, but also with married women
dc.descriptionand some were slain by the husbands. The emotions of such women (nayika) are the subject of innumerable Hindi poems.
dc.format.extent35mm
dc.format.mediumslide
dc.format.mediumcolour
dc.identifierANUA 682-3251
dc.identifier.otherIIP-3050
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/188202
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2019
dc.rights.licenseThis item is provided for research purposes. Contact the Australian National University Archives at butlin.archives@anu.edu.au for permission to use.
dc.subjectCentral India: Malwa & Bundelkhand
dc.subjectpaintings
dc.subjectminiatures
dc.subjectbook scan
dc.titleMaid brings a message to her mistress from her lover, rasikpriya (illustration) by Kesavadas Sanadhya Misra, famous poet of Orchha, Bundelkhand, Rajput miniature in amber, c. 1600 (Baroda Museum)
dc.typeImage
dspace.entity.typeANUArchivesItem
local.description.notesSource: Hermann Goetz, India: Five Thousand Years of Indian Art, London, Methuen, 1959, p. 208
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByU4962371

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