Part of a Temple Hanging depicting Krishna, Late 19th Century, Design represents the Hindu god Krishna vanquishing the serpent demon Kaliya. Krishna is a crowned blue figure wearing jewellery and a sarong., This fragment from a temple hanging is one of a large group of South Asian printed and painted cotton textiles collected in the late nineteenth century by Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke., It would have been hung in a temple to tell the stories of the gods., 'Madras' in this context probably means 'Madras Presidency' as these come from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh

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