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| Keywords: Kamadhenu.jpg en Kamadhenu The Wish-Granting Cow Made in Rajasthan India c 1825-55 Artist/maker unknown India Rajasthan Jodhpur or Nathadwara Opaque watercolor and metallic pigments on paper 5 x 5 inches 12 7 x 12 7 cm This vision of Kamadhenu the Wish-Granting Cow combines the white zebu cow with the crowned frontal female face colourful eagle wings and peacock tail of Buraq the animal that the prophet Muhammad rode to heaven in his night journey Miraj From at least the fifteenth century Persian paintings showed Buraq with a horse's body wings and woman's face; the peacock tail may have been an Indian addition Popular images of Kamadhenu in India today often show her as in this painting which may be one of the earliest images to merge the visual characteristics of the Hindu Kamadhenu with the Islamic Buraq http //www philamuseum org/collections/permanent/88274 html mulR 7702 Author circa 1825 -55 PD-art Kamadhenu Small images 19th-century watercolor paintings from India | ||||
