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Keywords: Page from an Illustrated Manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana.jpg This is a page from a manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana a lengthy Hindu scripture dedicated to the god Krishna who is said to have lived on earth as a prince The episode has not been firmly identified but it depicts a city being besieged by demons The artist employed a clever device to illustrate the siege with an economy of means floating the crenellated square of the city walls in space so we can see that it is surrounded on all sides At either end we see multistoried urban buildings populated by demons in the upper left unit and regular people including a family at the upper right and a woman worshipping a small image of a goddess at the lower left The compartmentalization and inventive abstraction of this image are both typical of paintings made in Central India in a region once known as Malwa circa 1610 1650 Opaque watercolor on paper Overall 9 x 14 in 22 9 x 35 6 cm Brooklyn Museum object history credit line Gift of Dr and Mrs Robert Walzer accession number 84 206 1 Illustrated Manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana http //www brooklynmuseum org/opencollection/labs/splitsecond/painting php id 114 PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Small images Bhagavata Purana
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