Lot n° 245
Estimation :
600 - 800
EUR
PART OF A BHAGAVATA PURANA MANUSCRIPT - Lot 245
PART OF A BHAGAVATA PURANA MANUSCRIPT
Kashmir, second half of the 19th century.
Thirteen parts of text in black ink devanagari writing on paper, of thirteen lines per page.
Each section is illustrated with a painting: the third incarnation of Vishnu in the form of a boar, Varâha; a couple in a palace with Krishna; a group of men fighting with Rama and Balarama with arrows; Vishnu and Garuda worship the white elephant; the fourth avatar of Vishnu, Narasimha, or Vishnu incarnates as a lion to annihilate Hiranyakashipu; Hanuman worship before Rama and Sità, sitting on a throne; the churning of the sea of milk to obtain the elixir of eternity; Brahma in front of Ganesh and Parvati; a devotee visits Civa sitting on his tiger skin; worship of Brahma sitting on his mount, the goose; a king visits Krishna sitting on a throne; Vishnu and Rama visit a king, before them a man lying in a pond a snake on his body; Sita and the test of fire .
Condition: two paintings in Part 5 (probably including the one in Part 4). Without binding.
Status: each part is preserved in a paper
Page size: 17 x 36.5 cm
Miniature size: 6 x 6.6 cm
The Bhagavata purana, or the ancient history of the God Vishnu, the Preserver God, the second member of the Hindu trinity, relates the interventions of the god on earth when the balance between evil and good is upset. Vishnu intervenes by embodying himself in it by becoming Avatara. There are 10 avatars and they are recounted in books 10 and 11 of the Puranas. Book 11 describes the eighth intervention in particular under the name of Krishna.
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