Pradyumna and Mayavati Fly to Dvaraka, from the Large Basohli Bhagavata Purana

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Pradyumna and Mayavati Fly to Dvaraka, from the Large Basohli Bhagavata Purana

Date
c. 1760–65
Medium
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Department
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
146203

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A goddess who can fly, Mayavati brings her lover Pradyumna to be reunited with his parents for the first time since he was an infant, when he was kidnapped by a demon who was her husband. Having just slain the demon, they can be together and return to the palace where he was born. Pradyumna is the son of Krishna, and also an incarnation of the god of love, Kama. Mayavati is an incarnation of Rati, the goddess of erotic love. Later, Pradyumna also marries his cousin Rukmavati.

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Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Provenance
?–1973: (John D. MacDonald, Cambridge, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1973–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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