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| Keywords: The Destruction of Daksha's sacrifice, from an illustrated manuscript of the Razmnama.jpg en Object ID 2007 12 Designation The Destruction of Daksha's sacrifice from an illustrated manuscript of the Razmnama Artist Jamshed Date 1598-1600 Medium Opaque watercolors and gold on paper Place of Origin Pakistan Lahore or Northen India Style or Ware Mughal Credit Line Acquisition made possible by the George Hopper Fitch Bequest Label This early Mughal period painting comes from an illustrated imperial manuscript of the Razmnama a Persian translation of the great Hindu epic the Mahabharata The Muslim Mughal emperor Akbar reigned 1556 “ 1605 in whose reign this painting was completed commissioned Persian translations of the Mahabharata and the other great Hindu epic the Ramayana to demonstrate his interest in learning more about Hindu religion and culture Three major illustrated copies of the Razmnama are known; these are dated to 1598 “ 1600 1605 and 1616 “ 1617 This painting comes from the earliest of these manuscripts One of the most remarkable features of this illustrated Razmnama is that it depicts many stories ancillary to the central narrative The story told here is as follows Daksha father-in-law to the powerful Hindu deity Shiva held a sacrificial ceremony to which he invited everyone but Shiva At the ceremony Daksha continued to insult Shiva Enraged Shiva ™ s wrath became personified as Virabhadra and he and his henchmen attacked the ceremony breaking vessels killing guests and decapitating Daksha On display no Collection PAINTING Dimensions H 11 7/8 in x W 7 in H 30 2 cm x W 17 8 cm Department SA 1598-1600 http //67 52 109 59 8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/search 0040/0/title-asc/designation-asc t state flow 029aa090-92c3-4cdd-8117-27395d52e68b author PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Daksha yajna Razmnama | ||||
