Lot 322
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India, photographs - Hindu pilgrimage site, Muttra [Mathura]
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 10 September 2014 at 12:00 BST
Description
Banjatra by Goswami S. Balkrishen Lall Ji, photographed by Chunni Lall & Co., Muttra. Oblong folio, 84 albumen prints with captions printed on slips beneath the photographs, some discolouration/browning, contents loose, occasional small wormholes, a few boards chipped at edge, original half morocco, boards and spine detached and worn
Footnote
Note: Muttra and its environs were identified as the 'Braj Mandala' of Hindu legend where Khrisha met his consort, Radha. From the 16th century it became a holy Hindu pilgrimage site, with the poems of the Bhaktamala woven round the beauty of Rhada's sylvan abode near Muttra. Twelve sacred groves became points on a popular pilgrimage route - the Banjatra or forest pilgrimage. Very rare.