cover image: Putna Vadh ke baad Snaan karate Krishna

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Putna Vadh ke baad Snaan karate Krishna

A Rajasthani style of painting, created on paper using watercolors. The painting shows an illustration from Bhagwata. It depicts on the top left side Krishna being bathed by a group of ladies. After this, on the right Vishnu is seen seated on a lotus while on the extreme right Vishnu is seen killing a demon. In the centre Vishnu is seen in the form of dwarf incarnation. Below on the right extreme Ravan is seen lying dead on the ground and Rama and Sita seated under a tree. Hanuman and Lakshman stand before them with folded hands. On the left centre a king is listening religious discourse from a Brahman.Besides of the above description, the painting shows a narrative scene of snaan (bath)of baby Krishna after death of Putna. In this painting, some men are in dhoti with kamarbandh, mukut on his head and jama-pajama and the ladies are dressed in ghanghara choli and odhani. Painting is illustrated in Devanagri script.
miniature painting rajasthani painting
Identifier
AM-MIN-1055
Material
Paper
Pages
28.575 x 18.415 cm
Published in
Mewar, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
Type
Miniature Painting