Krishna fights the thousand-armed demon Bana; Bana’s mother Kothara intervenes to save her son
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Title
Krishna fights the thousand-armed demon Bana; Bana’s mother Kothara intervenes to save her son
Mapping in Color Item Type Metadata
Title
Krishna fights the thousand-armed demon Bana; Bana’s mother Kothara intervenes to save her son
Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310485
Repository
Harvard Art Museums
Accession Number
1995.68
Provenance
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift in gratitude to John Coolidge, Gift of Leslie Cheek, Jr., Anonymous Fund in memory of Henry Berg, Louise Haskell Daly, Alpheus Hyatt, Richard Norton Memorial Funds and through the generosity of Albert H. Gordon and Emily Rauh Pulitzer; formerly in the collection of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
Parent Work
Dispersed Bhāgavata Purāṇa
Date
1520-30 CE
Location
Mathura
Style
Chaurapañchāśikā Group
Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper
Size (H x W cm)
17.5 cm x 22.5 cm
Publications
Stuart Cary Welch and Mark Zebrowski, A Flower from Every Meadow: Indian Paintings from American Collections, exh. cat., New York Graphic SocietyNew York Graphic Society (New York, NY, 1973), Page 24-25/Figure 6
Exhibition History
Indian Harvest: Part 1, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/30/1995 - 01/21/1996
Rajasthani Miniatures: The Welch Collection at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, The Drawing Center, New York, 04/16/1997 - 06/07/1997
Re-View: Arts of India & the Islamic Lands, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/26/2008 - 06/01/2013
Beyond the Surface: Scientific Approaches to Islamic Metalwork, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/2011 - 06/01/2013
Rajasthani Miniatures: The Welch Collection at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, The Drawing Center, New York, 04/16/1997 - 06/07/1997
Re-View: Arts of India & the Islamic Lands, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/26/2008 - 06/01/2013
Beyond the Surface: Scientific Approaches to Islamic Metalwork, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/2011 - 06/01/2013
Collection
Citation
“Krishna fights the thousand-armed demon Bana; Bana’s mother Kothara intervenes to save her son,” Mapping Color, accessed April 6, 2026, https://mappingcolor.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/37.