Dancing Partners

~ Celestial dancer (Devata).

Period: Chandela period

Date: mid-11th century

Culture: Central India, Madhya Pradesh

Medium: Sandstone

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Chandelure fans, rise up!

Chandelure needs you! It's slightly behind.

How could you say no to a face like that?

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Fanart, fanfic, long ass essays, memes, OCs, reblogs. All good shit.

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Monument Chandela - Khajuraho group of monuments at Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA

Drops handfull after handfull of Chesto Berries from his pockets atop the sleeping Subway Master.

          not even flinching. he’s verrrrry deep in the sleep zone after a 17-hour combined day and night shift.  completely out of it, even as the dozens of berries fall on him on the couch.  please someone come dig him out of the pile. 

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Shilpaloka black stone (Schist) sculpture of Hari-Hara   Installed at Mahalasa temple Verna.Goa. Chandela style

SORRY THE LATE ANSWER! Thank you so much! I try to draw something silly on the Thank you Notes, I’m happy to read you liked it!

Hello! I just received the items from your shop and I just wanted to say thank you for the cute note! I love nobori and chandela, so it was a very happy surprise 🥰

MWW Artwork of the Day (10/29/22) Chandela Dynasty artist (Indian, fl. mid 11th c. CE) Celestial Dancer (Devata)(mid 11th c. CE) Sandstone sculpture, 88.3 x 50.8 x 31.8 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gift of Florence & Herbert Irving)

The Hindu temple is conceived as a heavenly abode for the presiding deity. The building's stepped, indented, and towering exterior evokes the mountains of Indra's heavens, home to the assembly of gods as well as celestial beauties, dancers, and musicians. This life-size sandstone sculpture is an extraordinary rending of a heavenly celebrant performing in honor of the gods. The dancer's face and body are treated according to prescribed canons of beauty. Her body is contorted in an improbably pose, her legs projecting to her right while her upper torso and head turn sharply left. The extreme flexion reflects dance positions (karunas and sthanas) described in the Natyasastra, an ancient dramatic arts treatise. It is understood in Indian aesthetics that such positions enhance the appreciation of beauty.

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Rating: 3/5

Book Blurb: In Rati Mehrotra's YA fantasy novel Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove, a young guardswoman struggles with her unwitting role as a major pawn in the deadly games between two kingdoms in a monster-infested alternate medieval India.

Bound to the queen of Chandela by a forbidden soul bond that saved her when she was a child, Katyani has never fallen short of what’s expected of her—becoming the best guardswoman the Garuda has ever seen and an advisor to the crown prince when he ascends to the throne. But when the latest assassination attempt against the royals leaves them with a faceless body and no leads to the perpetrator, Katyani is unwillingly shipped off to guard the Chandela princes in Acharya Mahavir’s esteemed monastic school in Nandovana, a forest where monsters have roamed unchecked for generations.

Katyani wants nothing more than to return to her duties, especially when the Acharya starts asking questions about her past. The only upside of her stay are her run-ins with Daksh, the Acharya’s son, who can’t stop going on about the rules and whose gaze makes her feel like he can see into her soul. But when Katyani and the princes are hurriedly summoned back to Chandela before their training is complete, tragedy strikes and Katyani is torn from the only life she has ever known. Alone and betrayed in a land infested with monsters, Katyani must find the answers to her past so she can save what she loves and forge her own destiny.

Bonds can be broken, but debts must be repaid

Review:

A girl bound to the Queen of Chandela through a forbidden soul bound that was meant to save her as a child finds herself now serving as the bodyguard to the royal family... but when she is sent away to protect the princes as they study and train in a monastic school in the forest where monsters live she begins to question what her bond truly means and who she really is. When she returns to the palace an assassination happens and she is blamed... but the true culprit is still out there and soon she finds herself in a web of lies, betrayal, politics, monsters, and dealing with her feelings for a certain very cold warrior who she can’t help but want despite him being very much off limits. Katyani grew up believing that she was saved by the Queen and that their bond was special, that she was like family to the royal members.... yet when the truth is revealed her world will be torn apart and she’ll have to find a way to clear her name and solve the mystery of who truly murdered the royal family and what truly happened to her as a child. She is branded as a criminal and murderer and must now go live with the Acharya and discover what it truly means to have a family and as well as facing the implications of what happened to her real one. She is pulled back and forth between those she thought were her family and those who have come to care for her. As she deals with this she must also begin to discover what it means to be free and what she can do with that freedom. 

 I enjoyed Katyani as a protagonist, she’s fierce and funny and despite everything she’s been through, still very caring. The romance was meh at best for me, it seriously could have done more, Daksh is constantly hot and cold ( more so cold), and takes brooding silent type to the next level. The political mystery and assassination storyline was fun to follow and the overall book was a nice fantasy read. I enjoyed the monsters and the family secrets as well, I guess for me the lowest point of the book would be the romance part. Overall if you’re looking for a fantasy read with a strong protagonist, monsters, politics, and secrets definitely check this one out. 

*Thanks Netgalley and St. Martin's Press, Wednesday Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*