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File:A painting from the Mahabharata Balabhadra fighting Jarasandha.jpg
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Summary
| A painting from the Mahabharata: Balabhadra fighting Jarasandha | |
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| Artist |
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| Title |
A painting from the Mahabharata: Balabhadra fighting Jarasandha |
| Description |
With Krishna in his yellow dhoti at lower left, Balabhadra depicted five times speaking and fighting with King Jarasandha, the army to the right and several onlookers in the background, all surrounded by red and blue borders, some figures with annotations |
| Date | circa 1810 |
| Medium | Opaque pigments and gold on wasli |
| Dimensions | height: 32.7 cm (12.8 in); width: 44.4 cm (17.4 in) |
| Object history | Doris Wiener Gallery, New York; Collection of Melissa W. Banta, circa 1970 |
| Notes | Jarasandha, the king of Magadh, decided to attack Mathura to avenge the murder of his son-in-law, Kamsa (see lots 1346-1348 for further explication). Knowing that Mathura could not withstand his army, Krishna and Balarama challenged Jarasandha to a personal duel instead. Jarasandha was fearful of Krishna's strength, so to avoid him while saving his own ego, he called Krishna a child and not worthy of a duel. However, he did agree to Balarama's challenge and was soundly defeated while Krishna obliterated his entire army. The last repetition of Balarma (also known as Balabhadra) and Jarasandha, which shows them seated at bottom, is the moment in the story when Krishna has intervened in their duel to spare Jarasandha's life. |
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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
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| current | 05:07, 3 December 2012 | | 1,997 × 1,501 (1.58 MB) | wikimediacommons>Botaurus | larger image, same source |
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