Image credits

The paintings and manuscripts on this site are public-domain or openly licensed works of Indian art and learning. We are grateful to the artists, the scribes, and the institutions and volunteers who have made them freely available.

  • Rama with his brothers studying in the gurukula of Sage Vashishtha

    Bikaner, early 18th century. National Museum, New Delhi.

    Used on: Vedic classrooms.

    Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Parashurama

    Raja Ravi Varma (1848 to 1906), about 1910. Print from the Ravi Varma Press.

    Used on: the homepage. Shown slightly enlarged from the only surviving digital scan.

    Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Parashurama challenges Rama for breaking the bow of Shiva

    Bikaner, early 18th century. National Museum, New Delhi.

    Used on: Kurukshetra.

    Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Rama bowing to Parashurama

    Mewar, 1699. National Museum, New Delhi.

    Used on: About.

    Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Saraswati

    Raja Ravi Varma (1848 to 1906). Chromolithograph from the Ravi Varma Press.

    Used on: the Manas program and the Manas page.

    Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Krishna as Envoy

    Raja Ravi Varma, 1905.

    Krishna addresses the assembled rulers of the Kaurava court before the war at Kurukshetra. Used on: Seminars and debate.

    Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Shakuntala writing a letter to Dushyanta (Shakuntala Patralekhan)

    Raja Ravi Varma. Print from the Ravi Varma Press.

    A scene from Kālidāsa. Used on: Sutradhara.

    Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Galaxy of Musicians

    Raja Ravi Varma, 1889.

    Used on: the Manas page.

    Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Shivaji meets Samarth Ramdas

    M. V. Dhurandhar (1867 to 1944).

    The ruler and his teacher. Used on: Writing.

    Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Priests worshipping Krishna as Shrinathji for the Mountain of Food festival (Annakuta utsava), shrine hanging

    Kota school, Rajasthan, about 1840.

    Used on: the Temple Stewards Fellowship.

    Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Illustrated Bhagavad Gītā manuscript, chapter 1

    Unknown artist, 1824.

    Krishna and Arjuna in the chariot at Kurukshetra. Used on: the Great Library and Press.

    Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • An Upaniṣad embedded in the Sāma Veda, palm-leaf manuscript in Malayalam script

    Manuscript held in a Hindu monastery in Thrissur, Kerala. Photograph by Ms Sarah Welch.

    Used on: Sanskrit and Sanskriti.

    CC0 (public domain dedication). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Kurukshetra campus, aerial view

    Chanakya International Council, from the concept model of the planned campus.

    Used on: Kurukshetra.

    © Chanakya International Council.