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Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan

c. 600
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Sandstone
Overall: 203.1 x 68 x 55.5 cm (79 15/16 x 26 3/4 x 21 7/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1973.106
Location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian
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Gold earrings were once fastened to the sculpture using holes in the figure's earlobes.

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This masterwork of early Cambodian sculpture shows the Hindu god Krishna effortlessly holding aloft a mountain to protect his fellow villagers and herds from torrential storms sent by a jealous old god. It is one of eight monumental monolithic figures recovered from a two-peaked mountain in the floodplains of the Mekong River delta, on the outskirts of the ancient urban center of Angkor Borei.
Fragmented grey sandstone sculpture of Krishna in human form, reaching his left arm up, right arm hanging down and broken away at the bicep. For the legs, only a fragment of the right shin remains, a skirt with radiating arms wrapped around the waist and bare chested. Krishna smiles faintly, face worn down, ears elongated, and hair falling to shoulders in tightly coiled curls.

Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan

c. 600

Southern Cambodia, Takeo Province, Phnom Da

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