Sale 2459 - Rare & Important Travel Posters, October 26, 2017

SOBHA SINGH (1901-1986) 41 c SEE INDIA / KAMAKHYA TEMPLE. 1940. 40x25 inches, 101 1 / 2 x63 1 / 2 cm. Calcutta Chromotype Ltd, Calcutta. Condition A: minor repaired tears and minor foxing in margins. The Kamakhya Temple “is a Hindu temple dedicated to the mother goddess Kamakhya, one of the oldest of the 51 Shakti Pithas, situated on the Nilachal Hill in the western part of Guwahati city in Assam, India. It is the main temple, dedicated to Kamakhya, in a complex of individual temples dedicated to the ten Mahavidyas . . . It is an important pilgrimage destination for general Hindu and especially for Tantric worshipers” (Wikipedia). [1,000/1,500]