The Practice of Yoga. Folio 5 from the Siddha Siddhanta Paddhati. Attributed to Bulaki, 1824 (Samvat 1881); 46 x 122 cm Mehrangarh Museum Trust. “Very many Nath sadhus are praying, very many are meditating, having purified their hears, very many hear and

The Practice of Yoga. Folio 5 from the Siddha Siddhanta Paddhati. Attributed to Bulaki, 1824 (Samvat 1881); 46 x 122 cm Mehrangarh Museum Trust. “Very many Nath sadhus are praying, very many are meditating, having purified their hears, very many hear and attain wisdom. Very many drink milk and eat fruit, very many live on air alone, in their hearts there is limitless sound yet silence appears on their faces. Varieties of clustered trees create dense cool shade, the pollen of the malika is dear to the heart, the ketaki flower causes happiness.” Bounded by a deep-blue sky punctuated by scalloped cloud clusters and a silver river teeming with lotuses and marine life, this celestial hermitage is dotted with groves, gardens, and rocky promontories. On the right, a fortress-city beneath its own patch of sky nestles improbably amid the hills. The walled white city, like those on the cosmis body of Siddha Siddhanta Paddhati, folio 6 (cat. 48), serves as the cartographic signifier of a cele

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