Figure of Vatapatrasayi, Lord Vishnu as baby Krishna on a banyan leaf. He sucks the big toe of his right foot, adorned with a girdle of small bangles, kankanas, anklets and a kantha haras necklace. Vatapatrachai. Copperplate engraving by Jean-Baptiste Marie Poisson after an illustration by Pierre Sonnerat from his Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine (Voyage to the East Indies and China, Dentu, Paris, 1806.

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