Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.452

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Wives of the Mathurā Brāhmans taking food to Śrī Krishna. The three divisions of the picture represent a continuous procession from the village to the grove where the herdsmen are seated; those who have arrived are offering betel and milk; Krishna holds the flute and a rose lotus. The lower left-hand corner shows the Mathurānī whose husband would not allow her to go; the man is binding her arms, while the plate of food which was prepared is on the ground before her; but she set her mind upon Krishna, and died, reaching him before even the first of her friends.