Cleveland Museum of Art
Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan
- Date
- c. 600
- Medium
- Sandstone
- Culture
- Southern Cambodia, Takeo Province, Phnom Da
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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. Gold earrings were once fastened to the sculpture using holes in the figure's earlobes.
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