Manaku of Guler or Manaku (c. 1700–1760) was an Indian painter from the Guler State, in modern-day Himachal Pradesh. After his death he was mostly forgotten...
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script identifying the group as 'vasi Guler ke'. Manaku was Seu's eldest son. Later, while Manaku worked at Guler, Nainsukh migrated to Jasrota court,...
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Rajput painting (category Schools of Indian painting)
four sons and Manaku two, all of them painters. Sons or grandsons of Manaku and Nainsukh were eventually employed at Basohli, Chamba, Guler, Jammu and Kangra...
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Nainsukh (redirect from Nainsukh and Manaku)
"Joy of the Eyes"; c. 1710 – 1778) was an Indian painter. He was the younger son of the painter Pandit Seu and, like his older brother Manaku of Guler, was...
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avatar of Vishnu, who rescued the earth goddess Bhumi and restored order to the earth. Some of the Puranas present Hiranyaksha as the son of Diti and...
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Varaha (category Avatars of Vishnu)
an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, in the form of an Indian boar. Varaha is listed as third in the Dashavatara, the ten principal avatars of Vishnu. Varaha...
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Kangra painting (category Schools of Indian painting)
significantly advanced by Nainsukh and Manaku, sons of Pandit Sau, a painter from the Guler state. A group of artists, including Manku, Khushala, Kishan...
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Jayadeva (category Devotees of Jagannath)
rite of spring. This poem, which presents the view that Radha is greater than Krishna, is considered an important text in the Bhakti movement of Hinduism...
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Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh (category History of Chandigarh)
Khinnu, c. 1700 Vishnu as Varaha challenges the demon Hiranyaksha by Manaku of Guler, from Bhagavata Purana series, c. 1740 Parashurama leads Krishna and...
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Rietberg Museum (category Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Zürich)
Hiranyaksha. Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series by Manaku of Guler. Guler, c. 1740 Raja Balwant Singh of Jasrota examining a painting with Nainsukh by Nainsukh...
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B. N. Goswamy (category Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education)
Manaku. He published five books on this topic, Nainsukh of Guler: A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill-State, Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern...
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ideology" of Sikhism. They also accepted the concept of living gurus. The Nirankari sect, though unorthodox, was influential in shaping the views of Khalsa...
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Ravidas (category Year of birth unknown)
mystic poet-saint of the Bhakti movement during the 15th to 16th century CE. Venerated as a guru (spiritual teacher) in the modern regions of Uttar Pradesh...
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