A folio from a Devi Mahatmya

INDIA, GULER, CIRCA 1840

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A folio from a Devi Mahatmya
India, Guler, circa 1840
The goddess humbly clad in a diaphanous orange sari holding a pot and standing on a white stone before a silvery stream, looking behind her towards a female attendant and group of followers wearing gold and silver crowns, in a verdant landscape with rolling mountains and blue sky in the distance, the verso inscribed with the scene's description and numbered 24
Opaque pigments and gold on wasli
8½ x 11½ in. (21.6 x 29.2 cm.)

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Private collection, Tennesee

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The painting shows a rarely depicted episode near the end of the Devi Mahatmya, in which the goddess appears in a beneficent form to preach to the assembled gods. The inscription on the verso explains that the gods' boundless praises of the Great Goddess who defeated the demons Shumbha and Nishumbha resound throughout all the worlds.