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Priests before Shri Nathji
Content Provider | The Heritage Lab |
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Artist | Anonymous |
Organization | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Spatial Coverage | Kota Nathdwara Rajasthan |
Temporal Coverage | Circa 1820 |
Description | The temple at Nathdvara, north of Udaipur in Rajasthan, houses an image of Krishna from Mathura, a town near the birthplace of the god. Its priests feared the extreme Muslim orthodoxy of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and intended to take the sculpture to Udaipur, the capital of Mewar. However, the cart bearing it got stuck in the mud at Nathdvara—a mishap that was taken as a divine sign. In this painting, an image of the deity is seen twice: once at the top center, flanked by priests, and below, in miniature form, rocked in a cradle by four holy men. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Access Restriction | Open |
Rights License | CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication |
Use Rights URL | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed |
Subject Keyword | Holy Kota Nathdwara Priests Rajasthan Shri Nathji Painting Rajput Miniature Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Painting |