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Details
- Other Title
- Krishna incident
- Place where the work was made
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Madhya Pradesh
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India
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- opaque watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 20.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Jim Masselos 2022
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 60.2022
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About
This folio is from a Bhagavata Purana manuscript. A popular text of 18 000 verses composed around the year 900, it describes the Hindu deity Vishnu, in particular, his form as the blue-skinned god Krishna.
The beloved Hindu god Krishna was born a prince but a prophecy foretold that his uncle Kamsa, the demon king of Mathura, would be challenged by a nephew. Kamsa then ordered the deaths of all of his sister’s sons, so Krishna was whisked away to grow up incognito in a cow-herding village.
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Provenance
Jim Masselos, 1982-2022, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, donated to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, April 2022.