Art, Symbol & Imagination
Garuda: Nanda Lal Bose’s Mythological Bird Figure
Original caption: Garuda
Garuda combines a powerful human-shaped body with a bird’s beak and extravagantly patterned wings. A dark serpent curls beneath his feet while another coils near his clasped hands, bringing the bird’s traditional opposition to serpents directly into the image. Nanda Lal Bose sets the green figure against a flat orange-red field, so the fine gold-toned ornament and the curved animal forms carry the movement. In this collection Garuda belongs to the world of Vishnu and returns in the Krishna stories, where the serpent Kaliya seeks a refuge beyond his reach.
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Nanda Lal Bose. "Garuda: Nanda Lal Bose’s Mythological Bird Figure" [source caption]. In Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists, Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Original scan, 1914, George G. Harrap & Co.. Source scan leaf 37. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/hindu-garuda
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Title from the printed caption. Editorial description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Artist credited in the printed list of illustrations. Full source leaf and the adjacent narrative reviewed; historical scan colour and texture retained.
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Nanda Lal Bose. Garuda: Nanda Lal Bose’s Mythological Bird Figure. Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Scan leaf 37. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/hindu-garuda