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The Saving power of Soron: Sahibdin of Udaipur and the Sukarakshetra Mahatmya
| Title: | The Saving power of Soron: Sahibdin of Udaipur and the Sukarakshetra Mahatmya | | Author: | Topsfield, Andrew | | Publication: | Marg | | Enumeration: | Vol. 51 Issue no. 3; March 2000, p. 26-40 | | Abstract: | This article breaks new ground by being the first publication of the last known manuscript commission of Sahibdin, the most important Udaipur court artist of the 17th century. Dated in 1655, this commission was a series of 26 illustrations of the Sukarakshetra Mahatmya, a tirthamahatmya text (forming part of the Varaha Purana) which praises the sanctifying virtues of the pilgrimage town of Soron (now in UP), which Sahibdin's patron Maharana Raj Singh (r.1652--80) had visited a few years earlier. About half of Sahibdin's illustrations to the two main stories told in this text are reproduced and discussed. Both stories tell of birds or animals which die beside the Ganga at Soron and thus attain auspicious human rebirths, which again eventually lead them to return to Soron. This series of paintings, now in a Calcutta collection, is compared with the previous work from Sahibdin's long career (c.1628-55), and with the less inspired work of his later successors. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
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