پرونده:Karna, one of the Kauravas, slays the Pandavas' nephew Ghatotkacha with a weapon given to him by Indra, the king of the gods, from a manuscript of the Razmnama.jpg
Karna, one of the Kauravas, slays the Pandavas' nephew Ghatotkacha with a weapon given to him by Indra, the king of the gods, from a manuscript of the Razmnama
عنوان
Karna, one of the Kauravas, slays the Pandavas' nephew Ghatotkacha with a weapon given to him by Indra, the king of the gods, from a manuscript of the Razmnama
توضیح
This painting shows an incident in the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic telling of the
great battle between the Pandava brothers and their cousins the Kaurava brothers.
Though the incident illustrated here was minor, it had profound repercussions for the
outcome of the war. Karna uses a weapon given to him by Indra to kill the powerful
Ghatotkacha, who falls from atop an elephant. Ghatotkacha’ s death is a blow to
the Pandavas, but Indra’ s powerful weapon could only be used once; it was meant to
destroy the hero Arjuna. Therefore, Arjuna lives— and he later kills Karna.
The Razmnama is a Persian translation of the Mahabharata (the epic is widely revered
in parts of Asia beyond its origins and was much translated). The important government
official ‘ Abd al-Rahim (1556– 1626), known by the title Khan-i Khanan, commissioned
this translation and manuscript as well as Persian versions of other Indian stories.
Had we not known the manuscript from which this painting came, in examining its
style we might take it to be decades earlier in date. It lacks the delicate refinement
of the contemporaneous painting to the left, which was an imperial commission.
Nevertheless, the range of colors is vibrant and the line animated.
تاریخ
بین ۱۶۱۶ و ۱۶۱۷
date QS:P571,+1616-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1616-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1617-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
تکنیک/سبک
Ink, opaque watercolors and gold on paper
ابعاد
H. 13 in x W. 9 in, H. 33.0 cm x W. 22.9 cm
مجموعه
Asian Art Museum
مکان کنونی
San Francisco
آیدی
2003.6
تاریخ شیء
Place of Origin: India; perhaps Burhanpur; Madhya Pradesh state
خط اعتبار
Gift of the Connoisseurs' Council with additional funding from Fred M. and Nancy Livingston Levin, the Shenson Foundation, in memory of A. Jess Shenson
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