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Collection Online as of March 29, 2024
Krishna Watches the Milkmaids Circumambulating a Sacred Tree: the Month of Jyestha (May–June), from a Baramasa (The Twelve Months)
c. 1760
Page: 29.2 x 21 cm (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)
Location: not on view
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The birds and monkeys sitting around the tree are depicted in pairs, like loving couples.Description
On the day of Jyestha Purnima, having fasted for three days, married women worship the banyan tree by circumambulating it. The goal of this ritual is to ask for a long life for their husbands. The milkmaids (gopis), having already accepted Krishna as their supreme master, are praying for his well-being, while he observed the ritual from behind the plantains.- ?–2018Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, partial sale and gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art2018–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.163