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# Painting

This is an illustration to a set of paintings known as barahmasa or 'twelve months'. They use the activities of lovers and nature to illustrate the months and seasons. This page, from a dispersed set, shows the month of Karttik, roughly equivalent to November/December. Here a nobleman is visiting a lady at her home.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1720–1729 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-32-1980](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-32-1980) · Pramāṇa
