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Draupadi Rescued from Abduction, from a Mahabharata

c. 1615

Northern India, Popular Mughal School, probably done at Bikaner

Medium
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Page: 14.6 x 19.4 cm (5 3/4 x 7 5/8 in.); Miniature: 11.2 x 16.5 cm (4 7/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.189
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Draupadi had five husbands, the Pandava brothers.

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Bhima and Jayadrath, dressed like wrestlers, duel while his four brothers (Pandavas) and their noble attendants look on. Bhima appears to be the wrestler taller in stature and wears a necklace of bells, and Jayadratha is the one wearing an orange loincloth. Draupadi stands behind Bhima, already being rescued from Jayadratha’s clutches.
A horizontally oriented gum tempera and ink painting depicts two shirtless men with light skin tones and shaved heads wrestling on a bright yellow field under a blue sky. One raises a fist while the other lunges forward, muscles tensed. An audience is gathered on a green mound, including a woman in an orange skirt and a crowned figure on the right. Dark blue clouds drift overhead. A kneeling man has a darker skin tone.

Draupadi Rescued from Abduction, from a Mahabharata

c. 1615

Northern India, Popular Mughal School, probably done at Bikaner

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