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Balarama Fighting a Demoness, from a Bhagavat Purana

ca. 1820

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Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
Washington, DC, United States

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Title: Balarama Fighting a Demoness, from a Bhagavat Purana
Date Created: ca. 1820
Location: India, Punjab Hills, Himachal Pradesh, Kangra
External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Freer|Sackler collection, please visit http://www.asia.si.edu/.
Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
Credit Line: Transfer from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Bequest of Joseph H. Hirshhorn to the Smithsonian Institution, 1981
Collection: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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