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041			_aeng
082			_a759.954 _bKAR
100			_aKaruna Goswamy,
245		0	_aA sacred journey : the Kedara Kalpa series of Pahari paintings and the painter Purkhu of Kangra _c/ Karuna Goswamy, B.N. Goswamy and Usha Bhatia
250			_a1st ed.
260			_bNiyogi Books _c2021 _aNew Delhi
300			_a170 p. _b: col. ill. _c; 31 cm.
504			_aBiblio
520			_aThe 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?.
650			_aHindu painting India Kangra Valley
650			_aMiniature painting, Indic India Kangra Valley
700			_aB.N. Goswamy
700			_aUsha Bhatia
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