Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.114

v2.c19.114

In this picture, and in many others, the crocodile is represented as a horrid worm (sometimes more like an octopus). Hari appears riding upon Garuḍa, and bears the discus, mace, and conch, the lotus received from the elephant completing the four usual attributes. The two worshipping figures riding in the sky are those of Devas, but I cannot explain the action of the same figures in the lower right-hand corner. The composition and detail show clearly a survival of the forms of earlier *śāstrīya* art. Rājasthānī, 18th century. Size of original 13½ × 21 in. Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. Vol. i, pp. 39, 40.