Radha Krishna

$75
Item Code: BB79
Specifications:
Batik Painting On Cotton
Dimensions 3.3 ft x 4.4 ft
Handmade
Handmade
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Free delivery
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100% Made in India
100% Made in India
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Fair trade
How can I describe his relentless flute,
which pulls virtuous women from their homes
and drags them by their hair to Shyam
as thirst and hunger pull the doe to the snare?
Chaste ladies forget their lords,
wise men forget their wisdom,
and clinging vines shake loose from their trees, hearing that music.
Then how shall a simple dairy maid withstand its call?

------------------ Chandidasa

Chandidasa who lived at the confluence of the fourteenth centuries, wrote in his native Bengali, and is regarded by many as the founder of modern Bengali literate.

Here the artist has captured in visual terms the essence of Chandidasa's words. Radha sits enraptured, while the gentle Krishna, hued in soft blue, plays on his flute. She toys with her neck-ornament, while her left hand rests on her right thigh, as if she is restraining herself, for Radha fears that the melodious strains of the flute may make her loose all control over herself. Meanwhile Krishna watches over her beauty, not unaffected himself by the sheer grace, sensuality, and charm that oozes out of her person. Dresses in blood-red as opposed to his soft yellow-colored dhoti, she is the very epitome of physical desire while Krishna is the reservoir where all desire finds its consummation.

Reference:

Varma, Pavan K. Krishna the Playful Divine: New Delhi, Viking, 1993.

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