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Madhava plays his vina before five women drawing water from a well, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala

c. 1700

Northern India, Pahari kingdoms

Medium
gum tempera and gold on paper
Measurements
Image: 19.1 x 28.6 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.); Page: 21.7 x 30.9 cm (8 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
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Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.93
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The vina is an Indian stringed instrument with gourd attached on each end as a resonator.

Description

One morning, Madhava sits beneath a tree to play his vina (stringed instrument). At this hour, women come to a well to draw water. Time unfolds across the figures of the five women. Two pull their full water pots from the well. One stops abruptly, hearing his musical strains. Two have become so entranced that they drop and break their pots in surprise and listen with delight.

Madhava plays his vina before five women drawing water from a well, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala

c. 1700

Northern India, Pahari kingdoms

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