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Attributed to Kesava Dasa and Barnavri, volume 11, painting no. 40, text number 41, India, Mughal dynasty, “Arghan dev brings the chest of armor to Hamza” dated to 1570; 67.5×52.5 cmd; folio 79.1×63.3 cmd; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum collection Fund, 24.47 Published: Poster et al 1994, no 22; Chandra 1989, fig 2; Pal 1983, M2; Gluck 1925, fig 48.

Source: Brooklyn Museum of Art

 


Brooklyn Museum: Arghan Div Brings the Chest of Armor to Hamza

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  • “Three Plays“, 1994, Oxford University Press
  • Karnad’s second play that was an immediate success on stage. First produced in Kannada in 1965.
  • It is a play of the 1960s and thought to reflect the political mood of disillusionment that followed the Nehru era of idealism in the country.
  • Period set in 1327 CE
  • 13 scenes
  • Extracts by U.R. Anantha  Murthy:

“What struck me about Tughlaq’s history was that it was contemporary. The fact that here was the most idealistic, most intelligent king ever to come on throne at Delhi..and one of its greatest failures. Within 20 years tremendously capable man had gone to pieces. That was due to perhaps his idealism, shortcomings within him such as impatience, cruelty, and feeling that he had the only correct answer.” [pg. 143]

” Aspects considered by critics include: symbolism of game of chess; theme of disguise; ironic success of Aziz; dualism of the man and hero in Tughlaq; how the play relates the character of Tughlaq to philosophical questions on the nature of man.” [pg. 144]

“External action and inner drama within the man” [pg. 144]

“play is structure on opposites – ideal and the real – divine aspiration and deft intrigue” [pg. 145]

 

 

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  • Wiki link
  • Born 1938 in Maharashtra (close to Mumbai).  At 14 in Dharwar Karnataka. BA in Maths and Statistics. Oxford PPE Masters. Chennai work. Writing. Lives Bangalore.
  • Article
  • Translated to english the play Nagamandala.
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    • http://ignca.nic.in/nl001702.htm – article on Mathura
    • Excavations at Sonkh 2500 years of a town in Mathura District
      Herbert Härtel  – FOC.L /696271 
    • Occupation thought to have been from 8th century BCE to 19th century CE. Stratification largely based on coin evidence.
    • Second temple thought to be sanctuary for Naga cult.

     

     

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  • wiki 
  • legend from 8th Bhagavata Purana
  • Vishnu comes to earth to protect the elephant Gajendra from clutches of a makara
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    • 10 kms from Mathura (Uttar Pradesh)
    • Site of forest in Mahabharata where Krishna spent time
    • Forest groves of Brinda
    • Holy place for all Hindu traditions
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