Lot 28 Details

Absolute Tuesdays: Old Maps and Vintage Prints 13 February 2024

J C Anderson after Charles Richard Francis

Confluence of...

Later hand-coloured lithograph on paper

View Dimensions Without mount: 6.8 x 9.2 in (17.5 x 23.5 cm)
With mount: 13.9 x 16.6 in (35.5 x 42.2 cm)

Printed by Hullamandel and Walton.
Plate no.10 from Charles Richard Francis, Sketches of Native Life in India, with Views in Rajpootana, Simlah, etc., London: Meldola, Cahn & Co., 1848

The place where the Rivers Jumna (Yamuna) and Ganges meet is revered by the Hindus as one of their most sacred. Triveni Sangam is the confluence of the Ganges (Ganga), the Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati River. Triveni Sangam is located at Prayag - the area of Prayagraj neighbouring the confluence; for this reason, the confluence is also sometimes referred to as Prayag.

At Triveni Sangam, the Ganges and the Yamuna can be identified by their different colours - the water of the Ganges is clear while that of the Yamuna is greenish in colour. The third river, the mythical Saraswati, is called invisible.

The auspiciousness of the confluence of two rivers is referred to in the Rigveda, which says, "Those who bathe at the place where the two rivers, white and dark, flow together, rise up to heaven."

This work will be shipped unframed

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