Contemporary painting and Indian politics

[Husky]

I complained all through the previous post, but this one is on a different matter. It has nothing to do with the thread actually, but I can't be bothered trying to locate an appropriate one if it exists.



If anyone here has kids of that age where they like to colour (but won't tear up/eat the paper, etc), or if you like to colour stuff yourself - not judging ya - then the following 2 images seem appropriate, even if amateurish, and are stolen from some Hindu girl's site.



Note: I'm the one who superimposed the disclaimer text/the Rules on both (but the site where the images were nabbed from had a page dedicated to something ~like it anyway).

Personally, I'd make the usual exception for Ishwar Sharan because he's a well-meaning heathen, but that wasn't there in the site's own disclaimer.



The disclaimers are moreover necessary since Way too many drawings by native Hindoos are regularly stolen by alien dabbling thieves including "converts" who then host stolen native Hindoo-made images on their sites as if the aliens have something to do with it. Furthermore, many "converts" (often of the ISKCON variety) then peddle "jeebus colouring-images" side by side with those of the Hindoo Gods too, making things *even* worse - if that is even possible - than what the forever-uninvited Dabblers do.





Anyway, the images. The fullsize versions are much bigger, for which links are provided.

(Obviously these images are not for those Hindus who don't think the Hindu Gods are real. Etc. <- Also part of the original's disclaimer.)













1. The full size version of the first is at img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/indiaforum/Stuff/a-b.gif

2. The full size version of the second is at img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/indiaforum/Stuff/s-a-s.gif



The God in the first image seems to be identified by name in the image itself.



I think a relevant portion of the dhyaana shloka to the *male* God in the second image is as follows. It should indicate the name of the God (and hence the names of his wives, the Devis with him) - in case this is not apparent from the image.



Note: the dhyana shloka below is transcribed by ear and hence probably horribly wrong in multiple places - don't sue - but it's typed out in Skt here only because not every alien dabbler can read Devanagari yet and it certainly does not concern them. The Roman transliteration of the translated Tamizh next to each Skt line is probably even worse, but I'm not good at applying Roman letters to Indian languages (or actually any kind of spelling, for that matter).

(ध्यानम्)

चत्वारि शृङ्गाः (tzh: 4 x kombu) weet:

त्रयो अस्य पादाः [त्रयोऽस्य पादाः?] (tzh: 3 x kaal)

द्वे शीर्षे (tzh: 2 x thalai/mugam)

सप्त हस्ता सो अस्य [ सप्त हस्ताः सोऽस्य ?] (tzh: 7 x kai)

Then other shlokas to this God mention stuff like:

- "रुद्र नेत्रे" oder etwas, don't remember the exact wording/grammatical construct used, but I once heard something like that (in tzh: I think this must be 6 x kannu),

- शक्ति in hand (tzh: vel),

- 7 x जिह्व (tzh: naaku) - though this doesn't seem to be depicted in the above image



I think you'll be okay if he's made a darker shade of the Dinakara.



The मेष वाहनम् is apparently not meant to be just any kind of typical attukuti here, but rather more like the variety known in Kannada as "tagaru". Although, I'm not sure I can see the connection between a tagaru and that very round looking thing in the image...



Despite most of the above list of items being ticked off, the image is still not quite right: the measurements are clearly off (something real Hindoos - who aren't amateurs - are pedantic about and won't get wrong).





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Photobucket shrunk the full-size images to something small. Oh well, too bad.