. English: Accession Number: 1990:338 Display Title: Raja Drupada Begs Shiva to Grant him a Boon Suite Name: Razmnama Media & Support: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper Creation Date: 1616 Creation Place/Subject: India State-Province: Court: Mughal School: Mughal Display Dimensions: 14 1/16 in. x 8 3/16 in. ( cm x cm) Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection Label Copy: EDWIN BINNEY 3RD GALLERYSHIVA INSTALLATION The range and extent of textual sources for Hindu thought is mind-boggling, and can only be surpassed in complexity by the oral tradition that surrounds them and continues
. English: Accession Number: 1990:338 Display Title: Raja Drupada Begs Shiva to Grant him a Boon Suite Name: Razmnama Media & Support: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper Creation Date: 1616 Creation Place/Subject: India State-Province: Court: Mughal School: Mughal Display Dimensions: 14 1/16 in. x 8 3/16 in. ( cm x cm) Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection Label Copy: EDWIN BINNEY 3RD GALLERYSHIVA INSTALLATION The range and extent of textual sources for Hindu thought is mind-boggling, and can only be surpassed in complexity by the oral tradition that surrounds them and continues to grow. Shiva is seen through the prism of these texts in many guises. In the ancient and medieval periods, most of these texts are written in Sanskrit, an Indo-Aryan language related to Greek and Latin. In the Rg Veda, the earliest of the Indo-Aryan texts, Shiva takes shape as the Wild One (Rudra), Fire (Agni), The Guardian of Order at the Site of Sacrifice(Vastupati), the Lord of Animals (Pashupati), Lord of Yogis (Mahayogi). His nature develops in the sequence of Hindu texts that are roughly dated as follows: the Vedas, 1200-900 ; the Brahmanas, 900-700 ; the Upanishads, 700 ; the Epicsthe Mahabharata ( 300 300) the Ramayana (200 200); and the Puranas, of which the Shiva Purana ( 750-1350), Skanda Purana ( 700-1150), Kurma Purana ( 550-850), and Linga Purana ( 600-1000) are particularly important to the Shaivite tradition. When Akbar came to the throne of the Mughal empire in India in the 16th century, he commanded the translation into Persian, the language of the Mughal court, of many Sanskrit Hindu texts. Among these was the Mahabharata, which was translated as Razmnama The Book of Wars. In this illustration from a copy of the Razmnama made made during the reign of Akbars son, Jahangir, and dated 1616, Shiva appears to Drupada, King of Pancala, who is desperate for sons, and foretells the birth of Shikhandin. Two recurri
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