"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)."

Ixora (Ishvara) or Shiva, and his son Quenevadi (Ganapati), another print from the Picart series (1722); click on either image for a very large scan

LEFT PAGE:
The Ceylonese worship Ganesh and their "tutelary divinity," 1723
Source: ebay, Apr. 2004

RIGHT PAGE:
A sick person is carred before "Ixora" (Ishvara), then made to drink curative cow urine (1728)
Source: ebay, Apr. 2004

"Procession of the Ganges" and "Feast of Holi" (Picart, 1723)

Source: ebay, Sept. 2005

"Diverses Pagodes et Penitences des Faquirs," 1729; with an explanatory key

Source: ebay, Apr. 2004

Picart as pro-Christian propaganda: "Hindu Fakirs Practising their Superstitious Rites," from *'Error's Chains'*, by Dobbins, Williams, and Hall, Philadelphia, 1881; click on the image for a very large scan. This is a reversed, simplified, and slightly censored version of Picart's engraving (note the difference between the rightmost figure in Picart, and the leftmost in Dobbins)

Source: ebay, Mar. 2008

"Manner in which the Women in India Burn Themselves after the death of their Husband"
"Manner in which they Bury Themselves alive with the corpse of their Husband"

Source: ebay, July 2003

*A huge version of the upper image*

"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, Aug. 2007

*Four views of joguis*
*Four views of penitents*
*Four avatars of Vishnu*
*Four more avatars of Vishnu*
*Avatars nine and ten*
*"The temple of Kamaetsma" and "The procession of Witsnou"*
*"Brama ou Bruma"*

Source: ebay, Nov. 2006