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Krishna Returns With The Cowherds Wood Print
by Heritage Images
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Krishna Returns With The Cowherds wood print by Heritage Images. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and added depth of a wood print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 3/4" thick maple wood. There are D-clips on the back of the print for mounting it to your wall using mounting hooks and nails (included).
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Krishna Returns with the Cowherds to Braj, from a Bhagavata Purana, circa 1830. This miniature summarizes some of Krishna's many exploits with the... more
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Krishna Returns with the Cowherds to Braj, from a Bhagavata Purana, circa 1830. This miniature summarizes some of Krishna's many exploits with the cowherds. The later Pahari artists from the courts and small kingdoms in the western Himalayan foothills often use this device of combining many sequential events within one composition. In the background, the figure of the Hindu god Brahma, riding on his goose and holding the attributes of a Hindu priest (sacred texts, prayer beads, and water pot), references the various competitions in which he tried to engage Krishna at the cowherds expense. In the upper right is Aghasura, the giant snake demon who opened his mouth so that the cowherds entered, thinking it a cave; Krishna also went in and, swelling instead, burst the demon, so they could all escape through the top of his head. The two scenes in the foreground, also traditional subjects, are contrastingly peaceful, quotidian and bucolic, rather than heroic. Although the attribution to Hind...
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