I was looking for material on wall painting done Varanasi wall when i came across a book saying the symbolic motifs in mughal architecture. When I gave up on my curiosity and deviated from topic and started looking at it I got to know that everything created on the walls of mughal architecture has a meaning its not just put there for its aesthetic value and it’s roots are from India not Persia, though Persians interpreted it in different way. There are mainly eight auspicious symbols or astamangala of classic Indian art which were commonly used by Buddhist jain’s and Brahmins alike. They are as follows:
Mina mithuna
Deva vimana grha
Srivatsa
Vardhmana
Triratna
Puspadma
Vaijyanti or indra-yasti
Purnaghata
I wanted to trace the history of each of these motifs, and then know its meaning through the story and see how it’s being used these days and how its meaning has changed in today’s time and how it kept changing through different religion.
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