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TALSIMAN GARLANDS: PAINTED MALA FROM RAJASTHAN – TAASA Review September 2021

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This article was originally found in the September 2021 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 7).

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Joan Bowers F rom the 18th to the early 20th century, artists across Rajasthan produced miniature paintings at temples and pilgrimage places, creating images of the deity of that place to be purchased as talismans for protection, in celebration of a belief or as reminders of pilgrimage.

These tiny paintings were subsequently framed and an auspicious uneven number of them strung and worn as malas (garlands).

Miniatures were also commissioned and fashioned into jewellery, allowing the wearer to express her particular devotional leaning...