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India, Kangra

The illustration employs a continuous narrative scheme and depicts Arjuna paying obeisance to his elder brother Yudhisthira seated on a horse on the left, followed by the next scene in the sequence on the right, where Arjuna is shown seated with an ascetic who has just helped him discard his armor.


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The episode possibly belongs to the Adi Parva of the Mahabharata where Arjuna embraces asceticism for a year to atone for erroneously entering the private chambers of Draupadi, the common wife of the five Pandava brothers, while she was with his eldest brother Yudhisthira.
Date circa 1840
date QS:P571,+1840-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
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image 13 1/2 by 17 5/8 in. (34.3 by 44.7 cm.)

alternate measurements

folio 15 1/2 by 20 in. (39.4 by 50.8 cm.) unframed
Notes We would like to thank Mrs. Alka Bagri for her assistance with the identification of this scene.
Source/Photographer http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/an-illustration-from-the-mahabharata:-arjuna-embr-14-c-sip6pm12rb

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