Mathura Herakles information

The Mathura Herakles is a famous statue found in the city of Mathura, India, thought to represent the Greek hero Herakles fighting the Nemean lion. The...

Vajrapani, 2nd-century Gandhara. The Mathura Herakles, strangling the Nemean lion (Kolkata Indian Museum). Herakles under his lion skin and holding thunder...

Gandhara, the portraiture of Herakles is not perfectly exact and may show a lack of understanding of the subject matter, as Herakles is shown already wearing...

Indian tribe called Sourasenoi who worshiped one "Herakles" and originated from the lands of Mathura and Yamuna. Porus ruled over the tracts between the...

Ashoka Skull of Indus Valley inhabitants Young goat with eight legs The Mathura Herakles. A Tsuri-daiko (gaku-daiko), the large Japanese hanging drum, on display...

as in the case of the "Mathura Herakles", a Hellenistic statue of Herakles strangling the Nemean lion, discovered in Mathura, and now in the Kolkota...

Woman of Çatalhöyük of Turkey, the David (Michelangelo) of Italy, the Mathura Herakles of India, the Manunggul Jar of the Philippines, the Crown of Baekje...

Gandhara, the portraiture of Herakles is not perfectly exact and may show a lack of understanding of the subject matter, as Herakles is shown already wearing...

After Bath Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bhutesvara Yakshis. Mathura Herakles History and the Present, Partha Chatterjee, Anjan Ghosh Anthem Press...

Buddhist arts in the form of Mathuras, Gandharan and Amaravathi schools of art. Mathura art flourished in the ancient city of Mathura and predominantly red sandstone...

region, worshipped Herakles, by which he may have meant Vasudeva Krishna, the Indian god bearing the closest resemblance to Herakles. The worship of Vasudeva...

Krishna belonged". The word Herakles, states Bryant, is likely a Greek phonetic equivalent of Hari-Krishna, as is Methora of Mathura, Kleisobora of Krishnapura...

Athens, by Diosphos Painter Gandhara, India, 1st century Herakles fighting the Nemean lion, Mathura art, India.[failed verification] Roman-era relief, 2nd...

coinage. Several inscriptions in Sanskrit in the Brahmi script, such as the Mathura inscription of the statue of Vima Kadphises, refer to the Kushan Emperor...

"Mudgarpani" Yaksha Mathura, 100 BCE Mudgarpani (Sanskrit: मुद्गरपाणि, romanized: Mudgarapāṇi) was a Yaksha deity in ancient India. His name means "Mudgar-holder"...

consolidation for the Empire. Huvishka's territory encompassed Balkh in Bactria to Mathura in India, locations where it is known that he minted his coinage. Gold...

Satraps" who ruled in the area of Mathura in the northern Indian Subcontinent in the years around 10 CE. The Mathura lion capital was consecrated under...

the 'satyadharmasthita' epithet, it is now clear from the wording of a Mathura inscription, in which Huvishka bears the same epithet satyadharmasthita...

The Indian records also describes Greek attacks on Saketa, Panchala, Mathura and Pataliputra (Gargi-Samhita, Yuga Purana chapter). However, the campaigns...

adjacent. Lysias with elephant scalp and Herakles. Lysias with kausia, and Herakles. Coin of Lysias, with bust of Herakles with club, and elephant in reverse...

doubt that Methora in ancient Greek texts is same as Mathura, Sourasenoi as Shurasenas, Herakles of India is Hari-Krishna, Kleisobora is Krishna-pura...

at many places. Quoting Curtius, Dr. D.C. Sircar says that an image of Herakles (i.e. Vasudeva-Krishna according to Sircar) was being carried in front...