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Krishna Exacts a Toll from the Milkmaids: Dana-Lila, from a Bhagavata Purana
c. 1600
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Krishna can be seen here teasing the girls who bring pots of milk and yogurt to the Brahmin priests. Thinking it a waste of time to feed the Brahmins, Krishna waylays them, pretending to be the owner of the land where they are walking. He threatens to topple their pots if they don’t pay him a toll. An exasperated cow herder follows.
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- Title: Krishna Exacts a Toll from the Milkmaids: Dana-Lila, from a Bhagavata Purana
- Date Created: c. 1600
- Physical Dimensions: Page: 21.6 x 29.2 cm (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.186
- Medium: gum tempera and gold on paper
- Inscriptions: naṃdalīlā dānalīlā
- Fun Fact: A red quadrangle offsets the blue-skinned god Krishna.
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bikaner
- Credit Line: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Collection: Indian Art
- Accession Number: 2018.186
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