Description
Diagramme des neuf planètes ou nava graha
India, Gujarat, 19th century Gouache on paper 48 x 43 cm Provenance : Former German private collection of Indian Art, mainly from the early 1950s to the 1980s. This painting illustrates the nine graha of the Ayurvedic treatises of the Mahābhārata: Surya (sun), Chandra (moon), Mangal (Mars), Buddha (Mercury), Guru (Jupiter), Shukra (Venus), Shani (Saturn), Rahu (dragon's head) and Ketu (dragon's tail). Sometimes planets in astrological treatises, sometimes demons in medical and tantric writings, they transmute into divinities in ritual and devotional literature. A Gujarati painting of the nava graha (nine planets), India, 19th century
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