Things get odder again with a cabinet in the model room, where a model showing the plan of Soane's now-lost Westminster law courts is placed before an array of Egyptian, Hindu and classical deities.
The narratives in the early stages of the development of the languages are most often mythological tales drawn from the epics and Puranas of classical Hindu tradition.
One of the classical Hindu dance-dramas, it is meticulously described in the Natya-shastra, the great treatise of Sanskrit dramaturgy composed before the 3rd century ce.
For example, so great was the influence of the story of Rama in the classical Hindu Ramayana that the Buddhists and Jains felt obliged to retell the story in their own terms.
During the monsoon season Mr. Nair presides over the Kerala Kalamandalam school, where new actors are trained in the classical Hindu repertoire and the four-hundred-year-old technique of the dance.
The narratives in the early stages of the development of the languages are most often mythological tales drawn from the epics and Purāṇas of classical Hindu tradition (see above Sanskrit, Pāli, and Prākrit literatures: 1400 bc ad 1200), though in later times, in the 17th and 18th centuries, secular romances and heroic tales were also treated in narrative poems.
During the period of elaboration of the classical Hindu astronomy, which was definitively expounded in the treatises called siddhāntas and by authors such as Aryabhata (born ad 476), Varāhamihira, Brahmagupta (7th century ad), etc., the ancient Vedic notions on the cycle of years, embracing round numbers of solar and lunar years together, were developed.
Parvati at first cursed Bhringi to become nothing but a skeleton (in classical Hindu embryology, the father gives a child only the bones and sinew while the mother gives the blood and flesh), but eventually they were reconciled, and she blessed him.
He is also identified with the classical Hindu gods Skanda and Hanuman.
Khandoba's wives Mhalsa and Banai are also identified with Shiva's classical Hindu wives Parvati and Ganga.
