This gallery has paintings of various shringars of ShriNathji. Over the years, different shringars and Lord's festive attire has become popular with the Vaishnavs. This gallery looks at a sample of popular paintings.
Diwali annakut festival with 7 svaroops -
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ShriNathji amidst cows - 59kb
Janmastami, with Nandababa and Yashodaji swinging NavnitPriyaji in the inner
sanctum of ShriNathji - 27kb
ShriNathji playing holi in a garden, with NavnitPriyaji in the front and a
lake / walled pond in the background - 27kb
Pavitra-Ekadashi, with Gosaiji
offering pavitra to ShriNathji and the sevan nidhi svaroops along with his
father and sons - 161kb
Arti
of ShriNathji in a golden bunglow with pichoi of banana plants - 124kb
Ancient cloth painting of ShriNathji
with cows in the pichoi behind him - 64kb
ShriNathji at the heart of a visual map of the Vraj-Mandal 97kb
Rasamandala composed of ShriNathji and
gopies - 172kb
ShriNathji dressed
for Maharasa during the Ashwin Purnima festival. Wearing colourful clothes, the Lord
is adorned head to toe in traditional Rajasthani jewels. Pichoi is usually hung in the
inner sanctum, helping to bring to life the maha-rasa, showing the gopies linking arms,
palm to palm, to form the divine circle ! Heavenly gods gather above in their vimans to
shower flowers upon the rasa-mandala. Trees and animals are skillfully painted to evoke
the scene once played out in Vraj during Sarasvata Kalpa.
Painting is in the style of Nathadwara of the 18th - 19th century - 63 kb
There are articles on the subject on Rasalila. and
Shyamdas's translation.
Goswami performing arti for ShriNathji, with the pichoi of
MahaRaas in the background. The colours are bold and confident, as are the gopies in
the pichoi. Style is of medival Rajasthan / Nathdwara. 103
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Goswami offers arti to the Lord, with Govardhan
Dharan's pichoi in the background. The mountain is shown above the Lord's hand, and
above it are the angry dark coluds, bearing terrible rains sent by Indra. Underneath it
all, bathed in bright white light, are the gopas and gopies of Vraj, headed by Nandrai and
Yashodaji, adoring the strength and resolve of their darling son. 52kb
Shri Nathji wearing the Char-vagha and a "tripara" of peacock feathers. 17k
Shri Nathji wearing tie-die pichoda, popularly worn during the
monsoon season. 15k
Shri Nathji playing Holi, spring festival. HH Dauji is the
Goswami in attendance. 27k
Black and white picture of the Lord. 35kb
ShriNathji in "lal ghata", ie dressed all in
red during a late spring / early summer festival. Lotuses in the right hand of
the Lord indicate that the arti is being offered during the Rajbhog darshan - book cover
for "Sadhan Deepika" of H.H. Shri GopiNathji - 35kb
Special shringar of sandalwood paste and saffron - Chandancholi
(original painting from the Haveli of Shri Mathuradhishji's, Kota, Rajasthan) 23k
Read about Chandancholi plus other manoraths of the summer months
ShriNathji
adorned for a winter festival evening, wearing a golden plume atop his gem studded
turban. Even His clothes seem to be embroided with jewels ! Rajasthani style jewelry
cascades to His knees and gem encrusted anklets surely help put a sparkle in His step!
Richly decorated pichoi, probably studded with real gemstones and worked in real gold
thread, has a tree of life motif. Regally dressed in emeralds and pearls, the whole
scene evokes a mood of glittering evening revelieries of India's princely past.
Painting is modern / contemporary, late 20th Century, Nathadwara - 84kb
Chitraji of
Shri Nathji enveloped in a dark green silk shawl. (house shrine) 41kb
Golden ornaments surround a ShriNathji in a house shrine
44kb
Lord wearing minimal clothes and jewels during the summer months (house shrine ) 21k
ShriNathji, wearing a long sari (house shrine) - 52 kb
A very popular theme now-a-days - Shyam-ghata - when everything in the inner sanctum is
black ! From the pichoi in the background, thada-vastra, the ghardar-jama of the Lord, his
slipper, the cushions, to the footstool, are all uniformly black ! Diamonds and
pearls shine like stars in this wonderful winter shringar ! 24 kb
ShriNathji in a fulmandali
during the Narshimha Jayanti. Everything is saffron coloured and yellow and
white flowers adron the fulmandali. 38kb
Shri Nathji's "mukharvinda" (face), wearing an ornate turban. 24k
Shri Nathji wearing a traditional "laharia"
(waves) design pichoda. 86k Pichoi and pichoda worn by the Lord are of a matching
design.
Shri Nathji's shringar for Janmastami, Krshna's birthday.
24k The picture used on this page shows the Lord dressed for Janmastami. He
wears saffron clothes in the style of Char-vagh. Saffron is also used to make
flower patterns on his cheek, to ward off the evil eye. It also helps stave off
childhood colds. A peacock feather crown is also worn and as a special shringar of
the day, He wears a pendent with two tiger claws to ward off the evil eye. Shri
Navnit Priyaji joins Him in the nij mandir and He swings in a special cradle used for the
occasion. Mukhiyajies dresses up as Nanda and Yashodaji, sharing the joys of the
newborn with the rest of Vrajvasis.
Shri Nathji's magnificent golden Shringar during Gopashtami
and Chappan-bhoga. 51k The special crown worn on this occasion is called the Gokarna
mukut - as of the crown has two flared ends that resemble cow's ears !
Vaman Dwadashi, Gval darshan as indicated by the fact
that fresh tulasi (basil) leaves are placed near the feet of the Lord - still image 2 from
the excellent CD ROM, Shrinathji Darshan Vaman Dwadashi, On-Time Management PVT Ltd,
India, thanks to Mr.Tejas Shroff - 13kb
Index of ShriNathji's
Galleries