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Updated: September 8, 2019 6:20:05 am

Tryst with Tradition

The lecture is based on the book, The Great Mysore Bhagavata – Complete study of a Manuscript from the Binney collection in the San Diego Museum of Art, by Goswamy, which also has essays by Robert J Del Bonta and Caleb Simmons.

The volume, which was with Edwin Binney III, and came in 1986 as a part of his vast collection of Indian paintings to the San Diego Museum of Art, was originally in the collection of the Mysore royal family.

The Government Museum and Art Gallery, in collaboration with the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, is organising an illustrated talk by eminent art historian Professor BN Goswamy, titled “A Canopy of Arrows; A Mountain of Fire, Great Images from a Bhagavata Purana of the Mysore Court”. The lecture is based on the book, The Great Mysore Bhagavata – Complete study of a Manuscript from the Binney collection in the San Diego Museum of Art, by Goswamy, which also has essays by Robert J Del Bonta and Caleb Simmons. It is the complete study of the manuscript of Bhagavata Purana, dated 1825, housed at the San Diego Museum of Art collection