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# Painting

The painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, shows a noble youth standing in profile facing to the left, resting his left arm along a dagger (katar) which is thrust in the waistband of his patka. He is standning on a green band representing grass with styilised tufts of grass stalks dotted across it.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1700–1750 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-48-8-a-1956](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-48-8-a-1956) · Pramāṇa
