Explorations to Jaipur

Hello everyone,

Today I will tell you about my further visits in Jaipur and the places nearby it.

I started my day by visiting to our holy place in Rajasthan, Padampuri. There is a very good temple of Jains. The temple is famous for the marvelous idol of sixth tirthankar of Jains Padamprabhu Bhagwan. The temple is created in such a way that it attracts the attention of anyone who visits the temple. The architecture there is very much attractive.

Padampuri

After this I traveled to the famous museum of Jaipur known as Albert Hall Museum. The museum has such a good display of architecture and things that I was completely amazed by that show.

I am telling about some of the things that I liked the most in the museum.

First of all there was the idol of Goddess Saraswati that has such a good carving on it that I was completely amazed by seeing the fine example of such carving.

Goddess Saraswati

After that the next interesting thing was the Egyptian Mummy placed at the museum.It was the mummy of Tutu a female member from the priests families of god Chem. It was found at Akhmin, ancient Panopolis. The lid shows a winged scarab beetle, symbol of resurrection in 'after-life', flanked by heads of the principal deity, the falcon god Horus with solar disks. below it is a wide bead collar down to the waist and a winged goddess for protection.

The Egyptian mummy

Then, next was the vase by Kinkosan. The province of Satsuma on the Japanese island of Kuishu became known for their fine ware. During the Meiji period in late 19th century they made various types of ornamented, enamelled and gilded high fire pottery often with scenes of Samural life surrounded by ornate patterning and vivid colours. This pot is of that time.

Satsuma Vase by Kinkosan

Next were some of the vases which were used in earlier times by different countries and differnet kingdoms there.

Different types of vases

Next were some of the upnishads and books of the old times. These were the original books of the previous times that were printed on the old paper on which Ramayana and Mahabharata were printed. The first copy of these religious books were preserved here.

Bhagwat Gita

Then, there were different models of block printing that were displayed as an example of the art that is very much popular not only today but in previous times.

Example of Block Printing

After this there were several coins of the kingdoms and dynasties of India. All types of coins were displayed from ancient, medieval and modern times. Even golden coins were also displayed there of the mauryan period.

Madho Singh III time coins

Albert Hall Museum

Then I went to the famous City Palace of Jaipur where the present king of Jaipur, Sawai Padmanabh Singh, stays with his family. The palace shows the different traditions of previous times and the customs and dresses of the royal family.

City Palace

But photography was not allowed in the dresses room, so I could not take the snaps of the dresses of the royal family. Then there were the royal carts which were used by the kings and queens in the previous times for travelling throughout the kingdom.

Royal Cart

There was also an exhibition of the royal family where old kings were shown doing there daily chores. 

A scene from Durbar

After this I went to Choolgiri which is the scared place of Jains. As photography was not allowed there so I could not take the photographs of the place but I was astonished to see the architecture that was present there.
Then I went to Galtaji that is known to be the sacred place of Hindu religion.

Galtaji

At Galtaji there are two ponds one is on the hill and one is on downstream. I could not take the photographs of the upstream pond as it was not allowed to go there at that time due to some unavoidable reasons.
This pond is known to be the sacred pond by Hindus. But bathing is banned here as it is too much deep and has an unexpected mass of algae at the bottom of pond which makes it unfit for bathing.

Galtaji Pond

That's all for the day. Now I will tell you more about my visits to next place when I visit there.

Thank you