Four Gods and the Earth Cow Pray for the Assistance of Vishnu

Four Gods and the Earth Cow Pray for the Assistance of Vishnu

Four Gods and the Earth Cow Pray for the Assistance of Vishnu

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Promised Gift of the Kronos Collections, 2015

Doris Weiner, before 1981

"Palam" Bhagavata Purana

Opaque watercolor on paper

17.1 x 22.9 cm

BP. X.1.?

Inscribed on the front border in black ink in devanagari script, in lower left: “2 / Sa Mitharam”; also inscribed in yellow paint a number of inscriptions identifying some of the figures. Inscribed on the reverse in black ink written in devanagari script: fourteen lines of Sanskrit text (for an English translation, see Sanyal 1973, vol. 2, pp. 2–3)

Lerner, Martin. The Flame and the Lotus: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Kronos Collections. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. no. cat. no. 56, pp. 142–45, ill., pp. 142–45, cat. no. 56.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Divine Pleasures: Painting from India's Rajput Courts - The Kronos Collection," June 13, 2016–September 11, 2016.