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TWO ILLUSTRATED FRAGMENTARY FOLIOS FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA
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- TWO ILLUSTRATED FRAGMENTARY FOLIOS FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA
- Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
- image: 4 3/4 by 7 3/4 in. (12 by 19.7 cm) and slightly smaller, [2], unframed, 1 illustrated
Catalogue Note
Asuras approach the guardian of a pavilion containing Vishnu and Shiva.
The second painting depicting Balarama being anointed by an older sage or nobleman with a tilak mark of sandalwood paste upon his forehead - as rishis and devotees attend. A holy man lies wounded or dead from an a♋rrow at the right.