AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA, BOOK TEN: GOKULA TO VRINDAVAN
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA, BOOK TEN: GOKULA TO VRINDAVAN

INDIA, RAJASTHAN, PROBABLY JAIPUR, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA, BOOK TEN: GOKULA TO VRINDAVAN
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, PROBABLY JAIPUR, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Upananda, the elder brother of Nanda, seated in a bullock cart, with Yashoda and Rohini carrying Krishna and Balarama following behind, led by a procession of cows, musicians and attendants through the river Yamuna as they move to Vrindavan, depicted as a verdant landscape on the right, the seated figures with identifying inscriptions above, within yellow, black and white ruled lines and wide red borders, bearing folio number "17" and two lines of verse describing the scene in the upper and lower borders in black devanagari script
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper
9 x 14 1/8 in. (22.9 x 36 cm.)
Provenance
71.078: Sotheby's London, 7 December 1971, lot 71.

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