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# Painting

Opaque watercolour painting on paper of a Brahmin and his wife. The Brahmin is dressed in a white dhoti with a red border and matching angavastra (shawl) and stands with a palm-leaf manuscript in his left hand and his right raised. He wears a tall green and red cap on his shaven head.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1700–1799 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1954-0410-0-19](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1954-0410-0-19) · Pramāṇa
