The Sritattvanidhi ("The Illustrious Treasure of Realities") is an iconographic treatise written in the 19th century in Karnataka by order of the then Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (b. 1794 - d. 1868 or 1869). The Maharaja was a great patron of art and learning and was himself a scholar and writer. There are around 50 works ascribed to him. The first page of the Sritattvanidhi attributes authorship of the work to the Maharaja himself: » "May the work Sri Tattvanidi, which is illus… (More on Sritattvanidhi)