Krishna celebrating the Holi festival with gopis or milkmaids.
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Item No: foc0000129
Title: Krishna celebrating the Holi festival with gopis or milkmaids.
Media Type:
Paintings
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:
This item appeared in the exhibition "Sacred Stories: The World's Religious Traditions" in the Rare Book Department, August 2015-January 2016.
This is the label from that exhibition:
Holi is a spring festival celebrated in Hinduism, tied to the Equinox, and participants spray each other with vibrant pigments. In this miniature, the god Krishna and the gopis, or milkmaids, are squirting saffron and tilaka, symbolizing the sand of the Jumna river stained with the blood of the demons Krishna slew.
Call Number: Lewis R 5
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Krishna celebrating the Holi festival with gopis or milkmaids.