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BELNOS, S.C. (Mrs)
The Sundhya or The Daily Prayers of the Brahmins.
'Relatively little is known about Mrs. Belnos. Her husband, Jean-Jacques Belnos, was a French miniaturist and lithographer, who had travelled to India in 1807, and established a practice in Calcutta as a painter of miniatures and portraits of the British, a business which his widow seems to have continued following his death' (De Silva, Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c.1785-1845, pp. 106-7). Abbey speculates that Mrs. Belnos was Indian, but she was in fact almost certainly the daughter of William Moore, an assistant surgeon in the Bengal army. This seems to be her second and last published work, following Twenty-four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal, which appeared in 1832.
- Published
- London: Day & Son 1851.
- References
- Abbey Travel II 477; Bobins II 791; Lipperheide 1499.
- Plates
- 24 + 1
- Binding/Size
- L=FOLIO
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Day & Son 1851.
- Ref
- 1459
A fascinating book depicting the daily devotions of the Brahmin faith, illustrated through a series of original drawings from nature, demonstrating their attitudes and different signs and figures performed by them during the ceremonies of their morning devotions and likewise their poojas. Descriptive text with each plate, and the prayers from the Sanscrit, translated into English. Coloured plates in order: 1 (Coloured frontispiece) Junction of the Ganges & the Jumna rivers. 2. The Brahmins First Prayer to the Curoo. 3. Gungashtuk. 4. Koorma (Tortoise). 5 & 6. [assorted devotional hand and finger attitudes]. 7. Pooruck Pranaiyam - Kumbuck - Raichuck. 8. Urghai, offering water, rice &c, &c. 9. Soorya. 10. Gayatri Jup (The Secret Prayer). 11. Signs of the Gayatri. 12. Gyan. 13. Bhyraggai. 14 & 15. [various religious vessels and captions]. 16. Poojah of Vishnoo (pouring water on the Saligram). 17. Poojah of Mahadeo. 18. Pooja of Devee - Shico Shiva ( Pudmasheen). 19. Kuranyasa in the Gayatri Devee Pooja. (six hand signs) 20. [six devotionals arm, face, chest, and hand signs]. 21. Poojah of Soorya. 22. Pooja of Gunesh. 23. Pooja of Hunooman. 24. Punch Agnee. 25. Signs wore by Brahmins.
