"Ixora" (Ishvara, meaning Shiva) being worshipped as a lingam, from the influential Picart series; *a very large scan of this engraving*
Source: ebay, May 2002
"This plate is plate number 40 from book number 6 of THE CEREMONIES AND RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS OF THE VARIOUS NATIONS by Bernard Picart, French Edition published c1725 (and many later editions). The image was originally published in de Bry's Grand Voyages (1590 or subsequent edition)."
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Source: ebay, Dec. 2009
"Procession of the Ganges," 1723; *a very large scan* of the engraving
Source: ebay, May. 2010
"Manner in which the Women in India Burn Themselves after the
death
of their Husband"; *a very large
scan*
"Manner in which they Bury Themselves alive with the corpse of
their
Husband"; *a very large scan*
Source: ebay, July 2003
"Picart, Bernard. 'Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, Representees par des Figures dessinees de la main de Bernard Picart: Avec une Explication Historique, & quelques Dissertations curieuses.' Tome Second. Amsterdam: J. F.Bernard, 1728. A large copper engraving from that work. The print is signed and dated in the plate by Picart."
"Birth ceremony of the Banians" and "Naming ceremony of the Banians," 1728
Source: ebay, May 2010
Two ascetics, from Picart's
'The
Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Idolatrous Nations'
(English version, London, 1733-38); *the whole
page*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2009
*Four views of joguis*; *upper left view*; *lower
right view*
*Four views of penitents*;
*upper view*; *lower
view*
*Four
kinds of
darvesh*
*Four avatars of Vishnu*
*Four more avatars of Vishnu*
*Avatars nine and ten*
*An overview of the ten avatars*
*"The Pagoda of Kamaetsma" and "The
Procession of
Witsnou"*
*"Brama ou Bruma"*; *a
detail*
*"A sick
person
being presented before Ixora to obtain his blessing"*
*"A sick person in pain who receives
cow's urine
on his face"*; *a detail*
*[The
collection
of cowdung and cow urine by the faithful]
(Picart, or just similar?)
*"The temple of Kamaetsma" and "The
procession
of Witsnou"*
*The Ceylonese worship their "tutelary
deity"*
*Parsi wedding rituals, and their practice
of
baptism by fire*
*A Parsi wedding*
*A Parsi fire-temple and the towers of
silence*
*Death rituals of the Parsis*
*The Chingulais worship an image*;
*a closer view* [is this
originally from
Picart?]
Source: ebay, Nov. 2006, etc.
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