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# Painting

Painting, in opaque water-colour and gold on paper, the revel, fifteen cowherd boys clad in striped trunks pelt each other with curds obtained from broken pots. The pots were broken when a demon sat on the cart which held the pots, in order to crush the baby Krishna who was asleep underneath.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1755–1769 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-3-1960](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-3-1960) · Pramāṇa
