A sacred journey : the Kedara Kalpa series of Pahari paintings and the painter Purkhu of Kangra /

A sacred journey : the Kedara Kalpa series of Pahari paintings and the painter Purkhu of Kangra /

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Author / Creator:	Goswamy, Karuna, author.
Imprint:	New Delhi, India : Niyogi Books ; Zürich, Switzerland : Artibus Asiae Publishers, 2021.
Description:	170 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Artibus Asiae Publishers. Supplementum ; 54 Artibus Asiae. Supplementum ; 54.
Subject:	Pahari painting -- India -- Kangra Valley. Miniature painting, Indic -- India -- Kangra Valley. Hindu painting -- India -- Kangra Valley. Hindu painting Miniature painting, Indic Pahari painting India -- Kangra Valley
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13386080

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Other authors / contributors:	Goswamy, B. N., 1933-2023, author. Bhatia, Usha, contributor.
ISBN:	9789391125356 9391125352 9783907077641 3907077644
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-170).
Summary:	The Kedara Kalpa is a relatively little-known Shaiva text; and only slightly better known than it are the two dispersed series of paintings to which this study is devoted. But both raise questions that are at once elegant and deeply engaging. Ostensibly, they treat of a journey by five seekers who set out the reach the realm of the great god, Shiva - walking barefoot through icy mountains and deep ravines, frozen rivers and moon-like rocks, running on the way into temptations and dangers the like of which no man before them has encountered - and, in the end, succeed. But as one goes through the narrative, the text visualized with brilliance sometimes by members of a talented family of Pahari painters, on begins to wonder. Is this a parable of sorts? Or the description of a long, unending dream from which one never wakes? Or, one wakes up like the five seekers and then, at the very next moment, slips back into that real/unreal world again? Is there something that hides behind all that one sees? Is this journey real, or is it only in the mind?

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