Cleveland Museum of Art
Two-Part Panorama with View of the Narmada River at Omkareshwar
Raja Deen Dayal
- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- albumen print
- Culture
- India
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This stunning panorama boldly places the sacred Narmada River in the middle and foreground. Raja Deen Dayal forces the viewer’s eye to journey between the left-hand island with Omkareshwar Temple, an important pilgrimage site that is one of 12 revered Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva, and Mamleshwar, a shrine to Shiva on the river’s south bank, which is on the mainland. The temple on the left is believed to one of 12 places—Jyotirlinga shrines—where the Hindu god Shiva appeared as a bright column of light.
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