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May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016
Krishna Exacts a Toll from the Milkmaids: Dana-Lila, from a Bhagavata Purana
Krishna Exacts a Toll from the Milkmaids: Dana-Lila, from a Bhagavata Purana
c. 1600
Gum tempera and gold on paper
Page: 21.6 x 29.2 cm (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.186
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A red quadrangle offsets the blue-skinned god Krishna.
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Krishna can be seen here teasing the girls who bring pots of milk and yogurt to the Brahmin priests. Thinking it a waste of time to feed the Brahmins, Krishna waylays them, pretending to be the owner of the land where they are walking. He threatens to topple their pots if they don’t pay him a toll. An exasperated cow herder follows.
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