File:Kamadhenu and a Brahmin (6125146576).jpg

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English: Creation Date: ca. 1830-1850

Display Dimensions: 23 25/32 in. x 30 5/8 in. (60.4 cm x 77.8 cm) Media & Support: Opaque watercolor, gesso, and gold on cloth and wood Creation Place/Subject: India State-Province: Karnataka Court: Mysore School: Mysore Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection Accession Number: 1990.1431 Collection: <a href="http://www.sdmart.org/art/our-collection/asian-art" rel="nofollow">The San Diego Museum of Art</a>

Label Copy: November 2006

Paintings from South India

The sensitive and tender depiction of the calf sucking from its mother, the wish-fulfilling sacred cow Kamadhenu, provides a glimpse of how she would have looked before the damage to her pigment. Her entire body would have been covered with images of sages and deities, including scenes from the life of Krishna. Kamadhenu emerged as one of the treasures from the churning of the Ocean of Milk. (She is visible in the sky to the right of the mountain in The Churning of the Ocean of Milk, at right.) A lavishly adorned royal sage, probably Vishvamitra, is seated under a tree on a low throne at the right, and he venerates her with offerings of flowers.
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