Parel Relief
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The Parel Relief or Parel Shiva is an important monolithic relief of the Hindu god Shiva in seven forms that is dated by the Archaeological Survey of India to the late Gupta period, in the 5th or 6th
The Parel Relief, 5th or 6th century
Detail with Gana musician
Another view of the original
Upper part
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, formerly named the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, is a museum in Mumbai which documents the history of India from prehistoric to modern times.
Parel Relief
…been shallow water, and was too heavy to retrieve (or there was no one available to pay for that operation). There is a plaster cast on display in the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly the Prince of Wales Museum) in Mumbai. The relief, carved in "white granite", shows Shiva seven times, with a central image surrounded by six…
Façade of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghralaya (CSMVS)
A portrait of Shivaji at the entrance of the museum
Statue of The Prince of Wales, who later became the Emperor, George V
On two sides of the statue has mural type of stone carving depicting the POW inaugurating the museum