[INDOLOGY] Ancient Museum

[John Huntington]

Dear Harsha

I am writing to tell you that in the Nepalese Patan palace (painting Museum
now) there is an extensively painted room on the second floor on the durbar
(south) side. In late 2002/3 my late colleague Dina Bangdel and I were
permitted to photograph it in a "rush" one afternoon. It included the many
inscriptions but with Dina's untimely death there is no one with the
language skills to work on the material.

All the best

John

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 3:59 PM Harsha Dehejia via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Friends:
>
> While we have references to chitrashalas or a gallery of paintings, and in
> medieval India, as in Bundi for example, we have rooms in the fort where
> every inch is painted and it looks like a picture gallery, is there any
> reference to Museums, as we know it today, in ancient India?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Harsha
> Prof. Harsha V. Dehejia
> Indic Studies, College of the Humanities
> Carleton University, Ottawa, ON., Canada
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