Shaivite Brahmin Reading Scriptures – Sonnerat Engraving, India, Paris 1806 This engraving titled Brame de la Secte de Chiven (Brahmin of the Sect of Shiva) is plate number 11 from Pierre Sonnerat’s *Collection de Planches pour servir au Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine*, published in 1806 in Paris by Dentu.