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# Krishna

The figure of a crawling child, with the left hand palm-downwards on the ground and the right hand holding a mango or lotus bud rather than a butter ball.. His headdress is an inverted tiered cone, a shape typical of figures of this type from Tamil Nadu, with the top patterned with lotus petals.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1600–1700 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.534-is](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.534-is) · Pramāṇa
