5,000 years of mothers carried this before her — and so is the love that passed it down. Bring her back. 🙋♂️🖼️
Made this with AI as a fun tribute to medieval South India and my personal ancestry. I know it isn't truly historically accurate, but I tried to capture the spirit and aesthetics of the often overlooked Vijayanagara period. I'm always happy to learn, so feel free to point out anything that could be improved!
This superb large sculpture depicts the Buddhist three-headed sun goddess striding vigorously to the left, her right foot supported on a lotus, her celestial team of eight harnessed and rampant pigs trampling demons below. They are centred on the face of the charioteer Rahu, flanked by four attendants standing in elegant tribhanga adorned in elaborate jewellery and holding floral garlands and flywhisks. The goddess is depicted wearing a belt with festoons suspending pendants, and a long floral garland falling across her body, her principal face with smiling expression, flanked by the head of a sow and a benevolent human face.
Prince Frederick Victor Duleep Singh was the second surviving son of Maharaja Duleep Singh and a grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Born in London after his family’s exile from India, he was educated at Eton College, Magdalene College and Cambridge. He served as an officer in the British Yeomanry, including active service in France during the First World War. A passionate historian, archaeologist, and conservationist, he devoted much of his later life to preserving historic buildings and local heritage in Norfolk and Suffolk. A devoted monarchist, he was famous for collecting Jacobite and Stuart relics and even hung a portrait of Oliver Cromwell upside down in his lavatory. Following the death of his elder brother in 1918, he became head of the exiled Duleep Singh family until his own death in 1926. He never married and left no children, contributing to the extinction of the direct male line of the Sikh royal dynast
The Gop Temple, located near Zinavari village in Jamjodhpur Taluka, is believed to have been built around the late 6th or early 7th century CE, making it one of the oldest surviving temple structures in Gujarat.
Often associated with the worship of Surya, the temple predates the famous Modhera Sun Temple by several centuries and remains one of the most important examples of early temple architecture in Saurashtra.
The present research focuses on understanding Jainism through a site-specific study at Devagiri (Daulatabad), in the present-day district of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly known as Aurangabad), Maharashtra (Map 1).
When a person from a non-History background, or even a graduate who is aware of History, is asked about the importance of this district, or even the whole state, they mention the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Ajanta and Ellora, located in the same district.
Even when people discuss Devagiri (or its popular name, Daulatabad), they are referring to the medieval fort as a defence mechanism. Even the commoners and tourists who come here have heard something or the other about the fort, its gates, fortifications, underground passes, moat.