. English: Series Title: The Ancient Text of the Lord Creation Date: ca. 1840 Creation Place/Subject: India State-Province: Karnataka Court: Mysore School: Mysore Media & Support: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper Display Dimensions: 12 in. x 8 11/32 in. ( cm x cm) Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection Accession Number: Collection: The San Diego Museum of Art Label Copy: When the people of Hastinapur disobeyed and were wicked, Balarama, who was Rama's brother, tossed the entire city into the
. English: Series Title: The Ancient Text of the Lord Creation Date: ca. 1840 Creation Place/Subject: India State-Province: Karnataka Court: Mysore School: Mysore Media & Support: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper Display Dimensions: 12 in. x 8 11/32 in. ( cm x cm) Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection Accession Number: Collection: The San Diego Museum of Art Label Copy: When the people of Hastinapur disobeyed and were wicked, Balarama, who was Rama's brother, tossed the entire city into the river. Here great chunks of the city tumble through the air still inhabited by the unfortunate Hastinapuris and their animals. As in the buildings in the paintings from Myamar and Sri Lanka in this gallery, the palace at the upper left consists of uprights and a complicated roof. The city and its buildings are more complicated and very dense. The manuscript is a product of the imperial atelier of the Wodiyar rajas of Mysore and evidence of a flourishing school of painting about which little is known. Although the book is not complete, there are 215 illustrations on 218 folios. The text is Sanskrit written in Kannada script, with captions for the paintings in Kannada. Had the manuscript been finished, these pages would have been embellished with gold. October 2005 Domains of Wonder This lavishly illustrated book is in a class of its own. The Maharaja of Mysore, Krishna Wodiyar III, commissioned this copy of a sacred Hindu text dedicated to exploits of the god Krishna during the later part of his life on earth. The text is written in Sanskrit, but in local Kannada script; the descriptive captions in red are written in the Kannada language, which is spoken in southwestern India. In this scene, the first of two from the same episode, a lizard as large as a hill has gotten trapped in a dry well. Krishna, in the subsequent scene, will rescue him and reveal that this lizard was once
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