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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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