An Illustration from the Bhagavata Purana: Krishna, Arjuna and Kalindi are greeted by Yudhisthira, Nepal, circa 1750

Opaque watercolour on paper.

Arjuna follows Krishna's chariot as he brings his new wife Kalindi to Yudhisthira. They are welcomed by Yudhisthira who then asks Krishna's assistance in appointing the celestial architect Visvakarma to construct a suitable abode for the Pandavas.

John and Berthe Ford Collection
Doris Weiner Gallery, New York

Losses to upper right edge in red border of painting with further abrasions and paint loss to right edge and lower left corner visible in catalogue illustration. Minor tears to lower left edge along border. Colors of original slightly paler and less saturated than catalogue illustration. Fair overall condition.
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Krishna and Arjuna encountered Kalindi, the daughter of the Sun-God, during a hunting expedition on the banks of the Yamuna. Kalindi, who was an ardent devotee of Krishna, solicited Arjuna's help in persuading Krishna to accept her.

For an illustration of the scene immediately preceeding this, picturing the meeting between Krishna and Kalindi, see Sotheby's New York, March 22, 2007, lot 147. The highly stylized pictorial treatment is closely related to Central Indian paintings from Mewar and Malwa dating to the 16th and 17th centuries.

Related leaves are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum; see Maggs Bros. Ltd., Bulletin No. 7, no.174, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; see Pratapaditya Pal, Art of Nepal, Los Angeles, 1985, p.228; and the Binney Collection, see W. G. Archer, Rajput Miniatures from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd, Portland, 1969, p. 64.