Procession of Carriages Carrying Booty: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana Manuscript ca. 1640–50 India (Gujarat) This scene of recovered booty relates to one of the many battles recounted in the Bhagavata Purana. In this page (from the same manuscript as ), the storytelling elements have given over to patterned foliage populated with carriages bearing chests, guards, and attendants riding camels. The intent is decorative, and no real attempt has been made to relate the figures to one another; it almost recalls the type of repeating pattern found in block-printed Proce
Procession of Carriages Carrying Booty: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana Manuscript ca. 1640–50 India (Gujarat) This scene of recovered booty relates to one of the many battles recounted in the Bhagavata Purana. In this page (from the same manuscript as ), the storytelling elements have given over to patterned foliage populated with carriages bearing chests, guards, and attendants riding camels. The intent is decorative, and no real attempt has been made to relate the figures to one another; it almost recalls the type of repeating pattern found in block-printed Procession of Carriages Carrying Booty: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana Manuscript 37938
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