BALARAMA DESTROYS A PALACE
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BALARAMA DESTROYS A PALACE

MEWAR, CIRCA 1570

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BALARAMA DESTROYS A PALACE
Mewar, circa 1570
Illustration to the 10th book of the Bhagavata Purana (or Harivamsa), gouache on paper, Balarama destroying a palace with his ploughshare, inside courtiers and ladies, inscribed on front with Hindi, on reverse with Sanskrit verses, edges incomplete and later margined, slight flaking, mounted
Folio 6¾ x 9½in. (17.3 x 24cm.)
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Esaji, Bombay, April 1960
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The inscription at the top reads har[i]vans[a]

Chapter 120 in the Harivamsa descxribes balarama destroying the palace of Duryodhana by means of his mammoth plough in order to release Samba, son of Jambarati (Krishna's spouse) who had eloped with Duryodhana's daughter and had been caught and detained by Duryodhana's vassals.

The manuscript from which these two leaves come is the earliest known series of illustrations to the Bhagvata Purana to survive. Over two hundred paintings exist in many collections around the world. The series formed the PhD. thesis of Daniel Ehnbohm (An analysis and reconstruction of the dispersed Bhagavata Purana from the Caurapancasika group, University of Chicago, 1984), who also published two paintings in the Ehrenfeld Collection (Indian Miniatures, the Ehrenfeld Collection, New York, 1985, nos.1-2, pp.24-5). Others are to be found, among many more, in the Brooklyn Museum (Amy Poster, Realms of Heroism, New York, 1994, no.18, pp.53-5). That entry lists further publications of other examples.