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Object

Title: Temple Kolu Pabuji, Rajasthan (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Date issued/created:

[1994]

Resource type:

Obraz

Place of publishing:

Kolu Pabuji ; Jodhpur District ; Rajasthan

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). The picture shows the interior of the temple dedicated to Pabuji, built in the town in which he lived - Kolu Pabuji in Marwar region in the western part of Rajasthan. On the altar there are three reliefs - Pabuji as a rider on a horse (center) and two other riders on horses, companions of hero. In the village of Kolu Pabuji was born one of the ancestors of the family of Rathor Rajputs and one of the heroes of epic poems and songs of the western part of India. He was rajput who, according to epos he devoted his life to fight for the welfare of his lieges. In the series of epos occurs characters, members of his team. These figures are presented on other smaller reliefs lying in the temple. Song of the Pabuji Rathor are sung besides rajputs also by shepherds and some lower castes related cultural and economic with rajputs

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

text/html

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:42124

Source:

part 1, box 11, 0010

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

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