April 1, 2024
INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING Krishna lifts mountain DECCAN 19th C
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An ebay listing from www. indian miniature paintings GUARANTEED AS DESCRIBED Indianminiature painting Krishna lifts Mount Govardhana to save the villagers Deccan, Gadwal Circa 1870 Gouache on wasli (hand made paper for miniature paintings) 23 x 15.6cm (approx 9 x 6 1/8 ") A painting of Govardhanadhara : Krishna lifting mount Govardhana to save the people and cattle from vengeful Indra's deluge . When Indra god of storms became jealous of the villagers' devotion to Krishna instead of to him, in revenge he sent endless torrential rainstorms to drown the populace. Krishna came to the rescue and in doing so mocked Indra by raising the mountain on which the villagers lived, and held it aloft with just one finger. The people were able to shelter beneath it as if under a giant umbrella. From Gadwal in the Deccan, a rare example from this kalam (school of painting). Condition: excellent. If not for an old, short tear (fixed sometime long ago) at the top in the yellow and red border and into the blue sky by approx 3mm condition would be near mint. As can be seen from the image of the reverse it looks to have been stuck into an album or mount at some time, and in the bottom left corner (as we view) there is a triangular patch barely visible at all from the front where it is can be seen to be much smaller than at the back, and seems to
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