Krishna Flöte spielend mit Kuh und Gopi

Unknown (Indian)


Item type:
textile, clothing and costume
Date of creation:
first half, 20th century
Height:
89.0 cm  (35 1/16 in.)
Width:
89.0 cm  (35 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
cotton muslin; embroidery: silk yarn
Place of creation:
Himāchal Pradesh (Bhārat)

Additional titles

Krishna flute playing with cow and Gopi

Description

Ceremonial cloth (Chamba rumal) depicting a Ras lila (a religious dance theatre) with Krishna playing the flute and Gopis (Indian cowgirls).

Iconclass

12H13(KRISHNA)51
Krishna playing the flute, surrounded by dancing maidens
47I2112
cow

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
Object information and image, website, Museum Rietberg Zürich

Bibliographic references

Dance of divine love: The Rāsa Līlā of Krishna from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, India's classic sacred love story, introduced, translated, and illuminated by Graham M. Schweig (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2005).


George, David E.R. India: Three ritual dance-dramas (Raslila, Kathakali, Nagamandala) (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey 1986) 13-45.

Mason, David Vaughan. Theatre and religion on Krishna's stage: Performing in Vrindavan (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Bhattacharyya, Asoke Kumar. Chambā rumāl (Calcutta :Indian Museum, 1968).

RIdIM record id

6176