gouache on paper, blue floral inner border, red outer border with four cartouches, two blank, two with two lines and one line of text respectively in nagari text, two lines of nagari inscription verso
308 x 372 mm.

Footnotes

Inscriptions:
Recto, top: 14/tasyo kavitsa kaalanch muni naate nastaka/ ta ittashveta shvavicharnutasmin munivarashram.
Recto, bottom: sochintayatradatram mamatva krishtachetnaya 11.
Verso, top: 14/ prathamadhyaya.
Verso, centre: prashantasvapadakirna munishishyaya shobhitan 10.

This is folio 14 from the first book and illustrates the opening of the Bhagavata Purana. When the sages ask Ugrashavas to tell them about Krishna, he starts narrating the Bhagavata Purana to them, at his ashram in the Naimisha forest. Ugrashravas belonged to the suta caste and is believed to be the narrator of several Puranas including the Mahabharata and the Harivamsa.

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A folio from a Bhagavata Purana series: Ugrashavas beginning to narrate the Bhagavata Purana to the sages at his ashram in the forest Pahari, early 19th Century

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