“Bhim’s Top (great gun), Bairat [Viratnagar]. Bhimji’s gun, which he used against his enemies. It was turned into stone??” View of man with spear standing outside stone hut and beneath large overhanging stone. Bhim, one of the Pandava brothers, was believed to have lived in a cave in Bairat. The Pandavas were the five sons of Pandu. Their story is recorded in the Mahabharata, one of the most significant Sanskrit epics of ancient India. ❧ United Free Church of Scotland photographs from the Rajputana mission.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79183
- Date published
- circa 1901
- Dates
- circa 1901
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 19.6 x 14.5 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Asia Bairat India Rājasthān
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-75648623-1.tif
- Rights
- For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/5b74d9c15f4a2ee7b39215f6774f3739
