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manuscript, miniature, painting, book-illustration
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English: Page from a manuscript on paper of the 'Bhāgavata Purāṇa'. Painting in opaque watercolour showing a Hindu marriage. The groom, coloured in blue, stands with his bride before the sacred fire, into which the officiating 'brahmin' ladles 'ghee'. On either side are other priests and male and female attendants. The scene is set in a a pavilion with a dome and 'chatris' on the roof. Inscribed.
Depicted people Representation of: Aniruddha (grandson of Kṛṣṇa)
Date circa 1500
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
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Height: 18 centimetres

Width: 23.50 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1958,1011,0.1
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The page is from a dispersed manuscript once mistakenly believed to have had a colophon reference to Palam, outside Delhi, although no colophon evidence has been produced to suppport this. The latest thinking associates it with other manuscripts in this style believed to come from Mewar or Gwalior in the early 16th century and to be therefore the earliest documents of Rajput painting.

Although identified by the inscription below as the wedding of Kṛṣṇa's son Sāmba, who married Lakṣmaṇā's daughter of Duryodhana (Bh.P. X, 68), this is contradicted by the text on the recto, where are inscribed two lines of Sanskrit text in black ink between two red margins. The verse from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa reads: < > (X, 61, v. 25). It has been translated for: 'To please his sister (Rukminī), being bound by ties of affection, and although considering the marriage contrary to law, Rukmī gave his granddaughter (Rocanā) in marriage to his grandson (Aniruddha), although bound in enmity to Lord Kṛṣṇa (Hari)'. Kṛṣṇa had married Rukminī, sister of Rukmī king of Bhojakaṭa, and by her had his eldest son Pradyumna, who in turn married Rukmī's daughter Rukmavatī. Their son was Aniruddha, who in turn married Rukmī's granddaughter Rocanā. Despite this constant intermarriage, Rukmī was Kṛṣṇa's enemy as he considered himself insulted by him; at the young people's marriage feast, Balarāma finally killed Rukmī with his club.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1958-1011-0-1
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